Pope Calls for Prayer to End Gulf ‘Massacre’
<i> Reuters</i>
VATICAN CITY —
Pope John Paul II urged the world’s Roman Catholics to pray during Lent for an end to what he called a massacre of lives in the Gulf War.
“Peace needs our personal contribution,” the Pope said during his general audience on Ash Wednesday, start of the 40-day Christian period of Lent.
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