Pope prays for victims of Syria chemical attack

Pope Francis follows closely the issue of chemical attack to civilians in Syria with great suffering and concern.
In his Sunday Angelus, August 25, the pope said: “It is not conflict that offers a perspectives of hope for resolving problems, but it is the capacity for meeting and dialogue.”
Earlier, US secretary of state John Kerry described the chemical attack as moral obscenity and the international community also condemned the attack saying credible evidence will not be found if the government of Bashir al-Assad has tampered any links to them in the chemical attack. UN inspectors were allowed to investigate the matter.
The international community must “Do all it can to help the beloved Syrian nation find a solution to a war that sows destruction and death,” the pope said in the report posted in zenit.org.
“The growth in violence in a war between brothers, with a multiplication of massacres and atrocities that we have all been able to see in the terrible images of recent days, moves me once again to call in a loud voice for the fighting to cease,” the pope added.
The pope also asked the help of the Blessed Mother for the victims of the chemical attack. (John Frances C. Fuentes/@dcherald)