On the 80th anniversary of the landing at Normandy Beach, Pope Francis sent a letter to the Bishop of Bayuex, France. In it, he remembers the soldiers. But he also mourns the fact that people have \u201cshort memories\u201d and that wars continue today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let us pray for peacemakers. The desire for peace is not cowardice. On the contrary, it requires the greatest courage, the courage to know how to renounce something.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 425,000 Allied and German soldiers were killed, wounded or went missing during this battle\u2014a turning point in World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Pope reflected on the great losses from D-Day on his return trip from Malta and at the beginning of the war in Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n POPE FRANCIS A few months prior on All Souls Day, Pope Francis visited the French cemetery in Rome, praying at the tombs of soldiers who died in World War II, many nameless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n POPE FRANCIS Pope Francis challenges the world to not forget those who gave their lives in war and people around the world join him in commemorating D-Day each anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NATS dal video di Twitter<\/p>\n\n\n\n KG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To mark the anniversary of the Allied Foreces landing on Normandy Beach, the Pope sent a message to a bishop in France. In it, he recalled the immense sacrifice the thousands of soldiers made that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":68697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,209,212,27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2BSJpIcbPyU","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/b80anniversarionormandiaeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/b80anniversarionormandiaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68700"}],"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=68700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68702,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68700\/revisions\/68702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
April 3, 2022<\/strong>
When there was the commemoration of the Normandy landings, the heads of government gathered to commemorate it; but I don't remember anyone talking about the thirty thousand young soldiers who stayed on the beaches. They would open the boats, go out and be machine-gunned there on the beaches. The youth don't matter? That makes me think and makes me ache.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
November 2, 2021<\/strong>
Not even a name. On God's heart, there's all of our names, but this is the tragedy of war. I am sure that all these who have gone in good will, called by their homeland to defend it, are with the Lord.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n