Pope urges people to protect, cultivate even smallest signs of peace, hope

“Unfortunately, it has become increasingly common to drag the language of faith into political battles, to bless nationalism, and to justify violence and armed struggle in the name of religion,” the pope wrote in his message for World Peace Day. “Believers must actively refute, above all by the witness of their lives, these forms of blasphemy that profane the holy name of God.”

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