During his weekly General Audience, Pope Francis asked those present to remember and pray for all countries at war. He specifically expressed his prayers for a recent attack on the capital city of Kurdistan, which killed 4 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> In his catechesis, the Pope spoke about the need to avoid lust and using others. Rather he encouraged an emphasis on a love that respects and cares for the other. He also announced the beginning of a week dedicated to Christian ecumenism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> At the end of the Audience, Pope Francis challenged everyone to avoid taking steps that can lead to an increase in violence and tension, particularly in the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n KG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Pope also reflected on the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which begins on January 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":64446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,214],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jl5MONCTer8","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza1701eng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza1701int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64445"}],"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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64468,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64445\/revisions\/64468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I express my sympathy and solidarity with the victims, all civilians, of the missile attack that hit an urban area of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan-Iraqi Autonomous Region. Good relations between neighbors are not built by such actions but by dialogue and cooperation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tomorrow begins the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which this year has the theme, \u201cLove the Lord your God...and love your neighbor as yourself.\u201d I invite you to pray, that Christians will reach full communion and bear unanimous witness of love toward all, especially the most fragile.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n