"Here, when you are hospitalized, you often have to take water with you. There's not enough for everyone."
This is the situation in Kisantu, a town about 100 kilometers south of Kinshasa, the capital.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) To help lead the world s Catholics along a journey of intensified action in caring for creation, Pope Francis asked everyone to join a new global grassroots movement to create a more inclusive, fraternal, peaceful and sustainable world.
Speaking after the recitation of the Regina Coeli May 16, the pope expressed alarm at the Israel-Gaza conflict which has left more than 100 people dead, many of them children.
He said: In these days, violent armed clashes between the Gaza Strip and Israel have taken hold, and risk degenerating into a spiral of death and destruction. Numerous people have been injured, and many innocents have died. Among them there are also children, and this is terrible and unacceptable. Their death is a sign that one does not want to build the future, but wants to destroy it.
The pope also lamented intercommunal violence involving Jews and Arabs within Israel.