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 mankind.”
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Francis delivered his remarks during his yearly “state of the world” talk, which has come to be known colloquially among diplomats accredited to the Vatican.
Francis mentioned “the war in Ukraine, with its trail of death and ruin, with its attacks on civil infrastructures that cause lives to be lost not only through gunshot and acts of murder, but also through hunger and icy cold.”
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Immediately after, he highlighted a section of the Vatican constitution that stated: “Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole towns or broad territories with their populations is a crime against God and mankind which requires forceful and unequivocal condemnation.”