In his address to participants from a special convention, Pope Francis once again denounced the use of religion to justify violence. <\/p>\n
Around 50 attendees of the \u201cTackling violence committed in the name of religion\u201d conference met in the Clementine Hall with the Holy Father, who began by reiterating a message from his visit to Egypt in 2017. <\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Saying this type of violence \u201ccan only discredit religion itself,\u201d the pope urged religious leaders to be the most vocal. <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The \u201cTackling violence committed in the name of religion\u201d conference concluded on Friday, following three days of dialogue among political officials and religious leaders from around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 2, 2018. The pope joined political officials and religious leaders for a special encounter at the Vatican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/c_h0zm1x5DM","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bviolenzaereligioneeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bviolenzaereligioneint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cWe have an obligation to denounce violations of human dignity and human rights, to expose attempts to justify every form of hatred in the name of religion, and to condemn these attempts as idolatrous caricatures of God.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cConsequently, such violence must be condemned by all, and especially by genuinely religious persons. The religious person knows that among the greatest blasphemies is to invoke God as the justification for one\u2019s own sins and crimes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n