Pope Francis delivers Easter message in St Peter's Square, calls for end of carnage in Syria
Pope Francis celebrated Easter mass under tight security and a sunny sky on Sunday in front of tens of thousands of pilgrims gathered in a flower-bedecked St Peter’s Square
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Pope Francis celebrated Easter mass under tight security and a sunny sky on Sunday in front of tens of thousands of pilgrims gathered in a flower-bedecked St Peter’s Square, Vatican City. Reuters
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An aerial view of St Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday. Security precautions included bag checks and metal detector wands for everyone entering the square. Reuters
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Pope Francis greets a child at St Peter’s Square. The Pope opened Easter festivities with a tweet to his global flock where he said the Christian faith was born on Easter morning, and that that experience was at the heart of the Christian message. Reuters
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Pope Francis waves from his Popemobile after the Easter mass on Sunday. Access to the famous square for the mass on the holiest day in the Christian calendar, marking Jesus’s resurrection, was tightly controlled. Tourists and clergy alike formed long queues to have their belongings checked. Reuters
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Pope Francis also delivered his Easter message in the Urbi et Orbi (to the city and the world) address from the balcony overlooking St Peter’s Square. He urged an end to the “carnage” in Syria, calling for access to humanitarian aid to be facilitated and encouraged ‘fruits of dialogue’ on the Korean Peninsula. Reuters
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The Pope also called for “reconciliation” in West Asia, singling out the conflict in Yemen during his Easter message to the world. Reuters
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