It is important to combat all
violence, particularly when there is so much of it around said
Archbishop of Bologna and President of the Italian Bishops'
Conference Cardinal Matteo Zuppi after a meeting with the leader
of the city's Jewish community, Daniele De Paz, at the Bologna
synagogue on Tuesday.
"Fighting all violence is very important, all the more so when
unfortunately there is so much, too much, unjustified violence
that must end," said Zuppi.
"The Pope's appeal on the ceasefire is very clear," he added in
relation to the call by Francis for Israel and Hamas to cease
hostilities in the war sparked by the October 7 Hamas attack on
Israel.
Likewise, Zuppi said the pope's appeal "for the release of
hostages" taken by Hamas "is very clear".
"And so it is all the more necessary to be very firm in the face
of such strong violence", and to have "great firmness to defeat
it," he continued after the meeting in which the religious took
a firm stance against the anti-Semitism that is spreading in
Italy and in Europe.
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