Pope Francis assured this Tuesday that “history repeats itself” in Ukraine when remembering the anniversary of the so-called “Reinhard operation”, the code name of the secret plan that the Nazis launched in World War II to exterminate Polish Jews.
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“Last Monday, the Catholic-Jewish Relations Center of the Catholic University of Lublin commemorated the anniversary of ‘Operation Reinhardt’, which caused the extermination of almost two million victims, mostly of Jewish origin, during World War II. May the memory of this horrible event inspire in all intentions and actions in favor of peace,” he said during the general audience.
Later, during the greeting to the Polish faithful, Francis added: “History repeats itself, repeats itself, we see what is happening now in Ukraine.” The pontiff concluded the audience by asking the Virgin of the Immaculate, whose feast is celebrated tomorrow, to “give comfort to all those affected by the brutality of the war” and “especially for the martyred Ukraine”, in addition to urging the faithful to pray for the “martyred” and “suffering so much” Ukrainian people.
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In the foreword to a recently published book with his calls for peace in the Ukraine, The pontiff encourages “to continue praying insistently for peace in Ukraine, truly without getting tired, we must not get used to this war like any other”.
“We must not let our hearts and minds be numbed by the repetition of these grave horrors against God and against man. We must not, for any reason in the world, get used to all this, taking this fragmented third world war almost for granted. which has dramatically escalated, before our very eyes, into a third all-out world war,” the pontiff declared.
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