In Verona for the Arena of Peace the gesture of two people who have both lost loved ones in the Gaza conflict. The pontiff told the weavers of dialogue in the Holy Land: ‘Ask world leaders to listen to your voice, so that agreements are born from reality and not from ideologies’. ‘The sin of political regimes that have ended in dictatorships is not to admit plurality: only a society where conflicts are addressed and dialogue takes place has a future’.
Over 7,000 children from 84 countries around the world will meet Pope Francis Monday, in the same space where the pontiff recently presided over his Oct . 4-29 Synod of Bishops, the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall.