The Pope warns Trump: "God is not on the side of those who launch bombs"

Pope Leo XVI sent a message this Friday to the US president, Donald Trump. "God does not bless any conflict," stated the pontiff, who assures that those who are "disciples of Christ" are never on the side of those who "launch bombs." In a meeting at the Vatican with members of the Synod of the Chaldean Church of Baghdad, he declared that "it will not be military actions that create spaces of freedom or times of peace, but those of the people."In a tough speech, the Pope told the bishops that they are signs of hope "in a world marked by absurd and inhumane violence," driven "by greed and hatred." And that, he added, "it extends with ferocity precisely to the lands that saw the birth of salvation, to the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, without any consideration for the lives of people, considered, in the best of cases, as a collateral effect of theirs."With an eye on the "sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business," the pontiff made a call for the entire region to "enjoy true religious freedom," without being treated "as guests or second-class citizens."