POPE CALLS FOR TOTAL BAN ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Mon 09 January 2023:

Pope Francis declared on Monday that indiscriminate destruction of civilian areas during wars, like as the one in Ukraine, is “a crime against God and humanity”, Reuters reported.

Francis delivered his remarks during his yearly “state of the world” talk, which has come to be known informally among diplomats accredited to the Vatican.

Francis spoke of “the war in Ukraine, with its wake of death and destruction, with its attacks on civil infrastructures that cause lives to be lost not only from gunfire and acts of violence, but also from hunger and freezing cold”.

He then immediately quoted from a Vatican constitution, saying “every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and humanity which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation”.

Referring to the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, he said: “Sadly, today too, the nuclear threat is raised, and the world once more feels fear and anguish.”

He repeated his appeal for a total ban on nuclear weapons, saying even their possession for reasons of deterrence is “immoral”.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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