A new book is coming to Italy’s bookstores and newsstands tomorrow, in which Pope Francis condemns the rise in world military spending and offers solidarity to Ukraine over the Russian occupation.

The volume, entitled “Contro la Guerra: Il coraggio di costruire la pace” (“Against war: Courage to build peace”, its literal translation), will also be distributed with the newspaper Corriere della Sera and advocates dialogue as a political weapon. to resolve conflicts.

“Ukraine was attacked and occupied. And unfortunately many innocent civilians were affected in the conflict, many women, many children, many elderly people forced to live in bunkers dug into the womb of the earth to escape the bombs,” Jorge writes. Bergoglio at the entrance. from the book.

“Stop!” “War is not a solution, war is madness, war is a monster, it is war. It is a cancer that eats everything and feeds on itself,” he adds.

According to Francis, if the world had “memory” it wouldn’t spend “hundreds of billions” on “increasingly advanced” weapons. “According to a leading Stockholm think tank, $1,981 trillion per year marks a dramatic 2.6% increase in just the second year of the pandemic, when all our efforts must be focused on global health and saving human lives from the virus,” he says. .

Also, the Pope says it is “immoral” to have atomic weapons and that Europe today faces the “ghost of nuclear war”. “So step by step we are heading towards disaster. Piece by piece world, one III. ! , war is not inevitable!” he emphasizes.