The Pope asks the leaders of nations to build peace

ROME, 30 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The Pope has made a new appeal to demand an end to the war in Ukraine by urging “the leaders of nations to build peace.”

“You who are the Queen of Peace, instill in the hearts of men and the heads of nations the desire to build peace, to give the young generations a future of hope, not war; a future full of cradles, not tombs; a world of brothers, not walls”, the pontiff pointed out during the Regina Caeli, which he prayed just after the mass he presided over in the Kosuth Lajos square in Budapest, on the last day of his trip to Hungary.

The Pope wanted to place the faith and the future of the European continent in the hearts of the Hungarian faithful. “In which I have thought in these days, and in particular the cause of peace. Holy Virgin, look at the peoples who suffer the most. Look especially at the neighboring and tormented Ukrainian people and the Russian people, consecrated to you,” he said. .

After the Mass, Francis had one final event in Budapest before returning to Rome: a speech on European culture at the Pazmany Peter Catholic University.