"So many, too many voices today speak of war. Warmongering rhetoric is unfortunately back in fashion. This is ugly. But while words of hate are spewed, people are dying in the brutality of conflict. We need instead to talk about peace, to dream about peace, to give creativity and concreteness to the expectations of peace, which are the real expectations of people. Every effort should be made in this regard, in dialogue with everyone”. Pope Francis returns to call for every effort to be made to promote peace and seek avenues of dialogue so that wars that are killing thousands of people in different parts of the world may cease. After his appeal at Wednesday's General Audience, the Pope again calls for efforts to be made as soon as possible so that violence and horrors are lessened in his address to participants at the First Colloquium between the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue and the Congress of Leaders of Traditional and World Religions - a platform created in Kazakhstan that involves religious leaders and representatives from the worlds of politics culture, and the media - a meeting that, "with respect for diversity and with the intent" to enrich "each other," he hopes will be an "example not to see in the other a threat, but a gift and a valuable interlocutor for mutual growth”.
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