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The Synod: "Peace for the Families in the Middle East"  The Synod Fathers gathered around the Pope asked the International Community to re-establish peace on Iraq, Syria and all the Middle East
"We raise to the Lord our prayers for Iraqi and Syrian families, forced on account of their profession of the Christian faith or their belonging to other ethnic or religious communities, to abandon everything and flee towards a future without any form of certainty. We join with the Holy Father Francis in emphasizing that 'no-one may use the name of God to commit violence', and that 'To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege!'" This message full of faith and the desire for justice was published by the Extraordinary Synod on the Family on Friday, October 10th, sharing the intentions of His Holiness, who wanted to directly urge the International Community to "re-establish peaceful co-existence in Iraq, in Syria, and in all the Middle East." The thought of the Assembly, along with its prayer, then turned to all the families torn apart in many of the world’s regions, subject to abuse and violence.
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