Pope
Francis says those in weapons industry can't call themselves
Christian
At
rally of young people in Turin, Francis issues his toughest
condemnation to date of the weapons industry, criticising investors
as well as workers
Reuters
Monday 22 June 2015
02.06 BST /
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/22/pope-francis-says-those-in-weapons-industry-cant-call-themselves-christian
People who
manufacture weapons or invest in weapons industries are hypocrites if
they call themselves Christian, Pope Francis said on Sunday.
Duplicity is the
currency of today ... they say one thing and do another
Pope Francis
Francis issued his
toughest condemnation to date of the weapons industry at a rally of
thousands of young people at the end of the first day of his trip to
the Italian city of Turin.
“If you trust only
men you have lost,” he told the young people in a longcommentary
about war, trust and politics, after putting aside his prepared
address.
“It makes me think
of ... people, managers, businessmen who call themselves Christian
and they manufacture weapons. That leads to a bit of distrust,
doesn’t it?” he said to applause.
He also criticised
those who invest in weapons industries, saying “duplicity is the
currency of today ... they say one thing and do another.”
Francis also built
on comments he has made in the past about events during the first and
second world wars. He spoke of the “tragedy of the Shoah”, using
the Hebrew term for the Holocaust.
“The great powers
had the pictures of the railway lines that brought the trains to the
concentration camps like Auschwitz to kill Jews, Christians,
homosexuals, everybody. Why didn’t they bomb (the railway lines)?”
Discussing the first
world war, he spoke of “the great tragedy of Armenia”, but did
not use the word “genocide”. Francis sparked a diplomatic row in
April, calling the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians 100 years
ago “the first genocide of the 20th century”, prompting Turkey to
recall its ambassador to the Vatican.
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