Also yesterday, as in every Wednesday general audience, there was no shortage of expression of sorrow from the Pope for the territories wounded by the ferocity of conflicts and their burden of death and violence: Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, and to these Francis also adds Myanmar, where the tragedy of the Rohingya minority is being consumed. At the time of the greetings in Italian, detaching himself from the written text and addressing the thousands of faithful in St. Peter's Square, with the background of the sound of the wind, the Pope punctuated his new appeal. "May the Lord give us peace," the Pontiff urged, "War is everywhere. The Pope then added, "Let us not forget Myanmar," the Asian country he visited in November 2017 and which has always been included in his prayers and appeals, with special reference to the Rohingya people, a discriminated and marginalized Muslim minority.
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