Pope slams global 'war atmosphere'  

AFP, SARAJEVO: Pope Francis yesterday attacked "the atmosphere of war" currently besetting the world as he urged Bosnians to pursue reconciliation efforts, 20 years after a conflict that ripped the country apart. Many conflicts across the planet amount to "a kind of third world war being fought piecemeal and, in the context of global communications, we sense an atmosphere of war," the pontiff said in a mass at Sarajevo's Olympic Stadium during a one-day visit to the Bosnian capital. "Some wish to incite and foment this atmosphere deliberately," he added, attacking those who want to foster division for political ends or profit from war through arms dealing. "But war means children, women and the elderly in refugee camps, it means forced displacement, dest­royed hou­ses, streets and factories: above all countless shattered lives.”

 

Pope slams global war atmosphere

AFP, SARAJEVO: Pope Francis yesterday attacked the atmosphere of war currently besetting the world as he urged Bosnians to pursue reconciliation efforts, 20 years after a conflict that ripped the country apart. Many conflicts across the planet amount to a kind of third world war being fought piecemeal and, in the context of global communications, we sense an atmosphere of war, the pontiff said in a mass at Sarajevos Olympic Stadium during a one-day visit to the Bosnian capital. Some wish to incite and foment this atmosphere deliberately, he added, attacking those who want to foster division for political ends or profit from war through arms dealing. But war means children, women and the elderly in refugee camps, it means forced displacement, destroyed houses, streets and factories: above all countless shattered lives.