Violence Can Never Be Justified

(20 Feb 2006 RV) Pope Benedict said today that the world's religions and their symbols must be respected. The Holy Father’s appeal was made as he accepted the letters of credentials from the new Moroccan ambassador to the Holy See, Ali Achour. During his address to the Ambassador Pope Benedict added that intolerance and violence, can never be justified as a response to any offence, because it is incompatible with the sacred principles of religion. Meanwhile demonstrations over cartoons satirising Muhammad continue across the Muslim world, many turning violent and nuturing hate.
In the southern Pakistani city of Sukkur two churches were attcaked and a priest breaten by a mob motivated by rumors a christian man had desecrated the fundamental islamic text, the Quran. Bishop of Islamabad - Rawalpindi Anthony Theodore Lobo says the rumor which led to the violence is false…