Jesus's cry of thirst on the cross is heard today in the cries of innocent victims of war in the world, Pope Francis said.
Christians are called to contemplate Christ in "the voice of the suffering, the hidden cry of the little innocent ones to whom the light of this world is denied," the Pope said at a September 20 prayer service in Assisi with other Christian leaders, including Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby .
Far too often the victims of war "encounter the deafening silence of indifference, the selfishness of those annoyed at being pestered, the coldness of those who silence their cry for help with the same ease with which television channels are changed," the Pope said in his meditation.
