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Papa Francisco: "combatida aos pedaços, nós já estamos vivendo a Terceira Guerra Mundial".
Pope Francis called the terrorist attack in Paris "a piece" of a Third World War, broadening the scope of the world's response to one between good and evil. Speaking Saturday to an Italian TV network, the Pope said there is no "religious or human justification for these things," adding that the murders perpetrated by adherents of the Islamic State, were "not human." Islamic State took responsibility for the attacks, and similarly placed them in a religious context, calling them "miracles." The jihadist organization, which has already declared a new Caliphate — the traditional name for a pan-national Islamic empire — and warned that the Paris atrocities were merely the "first of the storm." The Pope's comments come a day after 128 people were killed, 350 were wounded and 90 were seriously wounded in several attacks in Paris, according to the latest numbers from CNN. The French government has put the entire country under a state of emergency — the last time this happened was during the Algerian War, which ended in 1962 — closed its borders, and deployed its armed forces in and around the capital.
In the wake of the attacks, Paris archbishop Cardinal André Vingt-Trois in a Nov. 14 statement appealed for the grace to be “artisans of peace.” He stressed that “we must never despair of peace if we are to build justice. “Faced with the violence of men,” he said, “we can receive the grace of a steadfast heart without hate.” The French prelate called for people to not give in to panic or hatred. “This morning I pray and I invite the Catholics of Paris to pray for those who were killed yesterday and for their families,” Cardinal André Vingt-Trois continued. He also called for prayers for the injured, those working to help those affected by the crisis, and the nation's leaders in order that they “remain together in unity and peace of heart.” "We ask for the grace to be artisans of peace. We must never despair of peace, if you justice," he said. The BBC reports that French president Francois Hollande has called the attacks “an act of war” by ISIS. The French president declared a nationwide state of emergency soon after the rampage began and closed the country's borders. Parisians were urged to stay in doors.
