Nothing is gained by violence and so much is lost,” the pope said in his Sunday address. It was the second time in as many days that the pope, who visited the United States in 2015 when Barrack Obama was president, spoke out on the violence in the Washington, D.C. He said he wanted to send “an affectionate greeting” to all Americans whose country had been “shaken by the recent siege on Congress”. “(Fringe) groups that are not well inserted into society sooner or later will commit this sort of violence,” he said in the television interview. Francis has had a rocky relationship with Trump, who visited the Vatican in 2017, disagreeing with him on a spate of issues, including immigration and climate change.

Source: bd News24 January 10, 2021 13:18 UTC