ROME – Pope Francis has condemned the routine use of “conventional weapons” against civilian targets in a message to Ghanian Cardinal Peter Turkson, sent the day after a warehouse in Ukraine containing several tons of humanitarian aid was destroyed in a Russian drone attack.
In his Sept. 19 message, the pope pointed to what he said were “the increasingly urgent ethical problems raised by the use in contemporary warfare of so-called ‘conventional weapons’, which should be used for defensive purposes only and not directed to civilian targets”.
