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Pope Francis yesterday expressed the hope that the conflict in Syria “will finally come to an end this year” and that this month’s Geneva 2 conference would mark the beginning of a peace process.
The pope made that observation in the context of the traditional papal address given each January to the diplomatic corps in the Holy See.
In what was a ‘stateofthe – world’ address, the pope touched on a vast range of subjects that included hunger, climate change, migration, the persecution of Christians in Africa and the Middle East as well as conflict and social unrest not only in Syria but also in the Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan, Egypt and Iraq. Continue reading
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