In his Urbi et Orbi message, the pontiff asked “God to grant his peace to a world ravaged by wars and marked by hatred and indifference.”

  He added, “May those who wield weapons lay them down! May those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace forged by force, but by dialogue! Not by the desire to dominate others, but by encounter!” the Bishop of Rome expressed, according to a statement released by the Holy See Press Office.

  We also see it “in the idolatry of profit that plunders the earth’s resources, in the violence of war that kills and destroys,” the Pope added.

  The Holy Father invited everyone, both believers and non-believers, to join him next Saturday, April 11, in a Vigil of Prayer for Peace to be held in St. Peter’s Basilica, which will continue the one held on October 11, 2025.

  It will be an action against the “globalization of indifference,” he said, echoing what Pope Francis has constantly expressed. A year ago, in his last Urbi et Orbi message, he lamented, “How much desire for death we see every day in the many conflicts affecting different parts of the world!”

  “We are getting used to violence, resigned to it, and indifferent. Indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people. Indifferent to the repercussions of hatred and division sown by conflicts. Indifferent to the economic and social consequences they produce, which we all suffer,” he stated.

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