Francis alerts: “Violence will never cease until all people reach a deeper awareness that they are brothers and sisters”
“Conflict and violence will never cease until all people reach a deeper awareness that they have a mutual responsibility as brothers and sisters”, Pope Francis has alerted.
The pontiff sounded the alarm in a message this November 30 to the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, on the occasion of the feast of St. Andrew, the patron saint of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
As a show of his esteem for Bartholomew and the Orthodox Church, the Pope dispatched a delegation including Cardinal Kurt Koch, the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, to the seat of the Patriarchate in Istanbul for a divine liturgy on the saint’s feast day.