End all wars, Pope pleads

Lorenzago di Cadore, Jul. 23, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) issued an impassioned call for an end to all warfare during his Angelus audience on Sunday, July 22.

Speaking from the town square in Lorenzago di Cadore, the mountain town in northern Italy where he is spending his vacation, the Holy Father said that the peaceful surroundings of the Alpine region made him feel "even more intensely" the impact of the news that he received on "the bloody confrontations and episodes of violence happening in many parts of the world."