{"id":527470,"date":"2025-04-21T02:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T00:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/an\/?p=527470"},"modified":"2025-04-21T02:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T00:07:00","slug":"no-peace-is-possible-without-true-disarmament-declares-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/no-peace-is-possible-without-true-disarmament-declares-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNo peace is possible without true disarmament,\u201d declares Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is impossible to build peace without disarmament, and the desire for self-defense must not turn into an arms race, Pope Francis declared during his traditional <em>Urbi et Orbi<\/em> Easter blessing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 88-year-old pope, still recovering from pneumonia and whose appearance had been uncertain, stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica in Rome to greet the faithful on Easter Sunday. \u201cNo peace is possible without true disarmament! Every nation&#8217;s need to ensure its own defense must not turn into a generalized arms race,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the face of the cruelty of conflicts targeting defenseless civilians, schools, hospitals, and humanitarian workers, we cannot forget that these are not just targets\u2014they are people, with souls and dignity,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He called for peace in the Holy Land, noting that this year, Easter was celebrated \u201con the same day by Catholics and Orthodox Christians.\u201d \u201cI stand with the suffering of Christians in Palestine and Israel, as well as with all the people of Israel and Palestine,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pontiff also called for prayers for Christian communities in Lebanon and Syria, and urged efforts toward peace in Ukraine, where \u201call parties must continue working toward a just and lasting peace.\u201d He went on to mention the Caucasus, expressing hopes for reconciliation between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Balkans\u2014where political leaders must avoid fueling tensions\u2014and several African nations, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, and the Sahel region, as well as Yemen and Myanmar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year marked the first time in eleven years that Catholics and Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter on the same date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The celebration took place in front of 35,000 worshippers. Pope Francis delegated the Easter Mass to Cardinal Angelo Comastri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is impossible to build peace without disarmament, and the desire for self-defense must not turn into an arms race, Pope Francis declared during his traditional Urbi et Orbi Easter blessing. The 88-year-old pope, still recovering from pneumonia and whose appearance had been uncertain, stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica in Rome to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":527471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"pays":[114],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-527470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-company-news-benews","8":"pays-world"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527470"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=527470"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=527470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}