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It’s so simple...” With those heartbreaking words and much emotion, a Ukrainian child posed that question to the world in the documentary Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom. The production by film director Evgeny Afineevsky was viewed on February 25 at the Vatican’s New Synod Hall on the day marking the one-year anniversary of what Pope Francis has called an “absurd” war.
Pope Francis also spoke of war destruction in the prayer he recited with those present, asking the Lord to heal humanity from the flow of hatred that fuels war: “When God made man, he said to take the earth, make it grow, make it beautiful. The spirit of war is the opposite: to destroy, to destroy, not to let grow, to destroy everyone, men, women, children, the elderly, everyone,” the Pope explained. He added, “Today marks one year of this war.
One year after the aggression against Ukraine perpetrated by the Russian Federation, more than seventeen million people in the attacked country are in need of humanitarian assistance; eight million are refugees abroad; and six million are internally displaced. There are more than twenty thousand civilian casualties, and about one hundred thousand military casualties on both fronts.
Pope Francis has made countless appeals, crying out, in harmony with his predecessors, his heartfelt “No to war!” It is the same “Never again war!” that St Paul VI pleaded in front of the United Nations Assembly on October 4, 1965; it is that “Never again war!” that St John Paul II cried out – ill and unfortunately unheard – at the Angelus of March 16, 2003, to avert the wretched invasion of Iraq, the consequences of which are still visible to all after the transformation for many years of that...
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