Pope Francis calls for suffering in Syria to end

Pope Francis

Pope Francis

The Vatican released a statement calling the article by Scalfari "the fruit of his reconstruction", Rosica said.

While visiting Vatican City on Wednesday, Peter not only received a blessing from Pope Francis, but was invited to ride on the Popemobile with him during his weekly audience. Hell is wanting to be distant from God because I do not want God's love.

Pope Francis on Sunday used his traditional Easter message to call for peace across the world, giving special mention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Syrian civil war.

But Cascioli also warned that comments coming from such interviews become "a cause of scandal in the literal sense of the term" because they "disorientate and confuse many Catholics, also because these sentences are then used and abused" by those whose goal is "the destruction of the Church".

"This is precisely what happened: Jesus, the grain of wheat sowed by God in the furrows of the earth, died, killed by the sin of the world", the pope said. "God never abandons us, never tires of forgiving us", he added.

On Saturday night, he celebrated an Easter Vigil service at St. Peter's.

The garden created on the steps of St. Peter's Square included 20,000 tulips in yellow, red, pink, white and orange.

Under a longstanding tradition, the Netherlands donated some 50,000 tulips, daffodils, roses and orchids for the occasion. The orchids closest to the altar were green, the color of hope.

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Francis called for global assistance for Venezuela, so that more people would not have to abandon their homeland because of the economic and political crisis.

Pope Francis on Wednesday told members of the Mafia in Italy, where many go to church and worship openly, that they can not call themselves Christians because they "carry death in their souls".

On Easter, he said, Christians should ask themselves if they have hearts open to being surprised by God and if they feel a need to rush to share with others the good news of God's saving acts.

Pope Francis got on with his Easter activities in spite of the hellish rumors, and washed the feet of 12 Italian prisoners during his Holy Thursday mass. "It is the power of the grain of wheat, the power of that love which humbles itself and gives itself to the very end, and thus truly renews the world".

Francis invoked divine protection for migrants, victims of the drug trade, human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery, children for the elderly, and had a special message for politicians.

An aerial view of St Peter's Square on Easter Sunday.

Francis then prayed for the "fruits of dialogue for the Korean peninsula" and that the "discussions under way may advance peace and harmony within the region".

The method got Scalfari in trouble in 2014, when the Vatican called fake news on his claim that Pope Francis said two percent of the Catholic Church's priests were pedophiles.

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