(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Sunday condemned a blast at a church in Pakistan that
killed at least 78 people as an act of "hatred and war".
In unprepared remarks
at the end of a one-day trip to the city of Cagliari on the Italian island of Sardinia,
the Pope said :"Today, in Pakistan, because of a wrong choice, a decisionof hatred,
of war, there was an attack in which over 70 people died. This choice cannot stand.
It serves nothing. Only the path of peace can build a better world."
Pope
Francis then prayed with the crowd for the victims.