British cardinal pleads for truce in Gaza to end the carnage

(Vatican Radio) Britain’s most senior churchman, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, has issued a statement on the conflict in Gaza appealing for an immediate truce to end “the carnage” there. 

 

Please find below the full text of Cardinal Nichol’s statement: 

 

Faced with the increasing violence that is engulfing the people of Gaza, my thoughts and prayers, and those of the Catholic community, are constantly with all those who have lost loved ones and whose lives are shattered in this conflict. The pain, anguish and sense of hopelessness of those men, women and children cry out that war is not the answer. As this conflict shows, violence breeds violence. Along with so many others, I plead for an immediate truce in Gaza that will not only put an end to this latest carnage but that will also address at last the core problems behind this conflict which has so blighted the lives of all the peoples of the Holy Land.