"Every day I pray that this war will finally end..." Pope Francis said during an event commemorating the historic "Invocation for Peace" in the Vatican Gardens ten years ago.
And speaking in the shade of the olive tree planted, on that occasion, by the then-President of the State of Israel, Shimon Peres; the President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas; and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, he called for prayers to ask the Lord "that the leaders of nations and the parties in conflict may find the way to peace and unity."
"All of us must work and commit ourselves to achieving a lasting peace, where the State of Palestine and the State of Israel can live side by side, breaking down the walls of enmity and hatred. We must all cherish Jerusalem so that it will become the city of fraternal encounter among Christians, Jews and Muslims, protected by a special internationally guaranteed status," he said.
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