VATICAN CITY: Amid the latest bloodshed in the Middle East, Pope Francis led special Friday evening prayers in St. Peter s Basilica for a world in a dark hour and in great danger from what he described as the folly of war.
"Please do everything possible to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe," he said at the end of his audience at the Vatican. The pope did not mention Tuesday night's strike on a Gaza hospital, for which Israel and the Palestinians blame each other. On Sunday, the pope appealed for the "urgent" opening of humanitarian corridors for residents of the Gaza Strip, which has been bombed and besieged by Israel. U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Tel Aviv on Wednesday a day after an explosion that killed hundreds of people.
'The world is falling apart': Pope launches new cry of alarm for climate. Responses to climate change are "insufficient while the world (.) is collapsing" Pope Francis calls for a "binding" energy transition in a text published a few weeks before COP28 in Dubai. "Only through such a process can the credibility of international politics be restored," he says. "No matter how much we try to deny them, hide them, conceal them or relativize them, the signs of climateChange are there, always more obvious," he adds.
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has suggested there could be ways to bless same-sex unions, responding to five conservative cardinals who challenged him to affirm church teaching on homosexuality ahead of a major meeting where LGBTQ Catholics are on the agenda.
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