Pope Francis has told the Russian Orthodox hierarchy and other faith leaders at an interfaith congress in Kazakhstan that religion must never be used to justify the “evil” of war and that God must never “be held hostage to the human thirst for power.”
But speaking from Russia’s southern neighbor as the seven-month war rages on, Francis told the faith leaders that they themselves needed to take the lead in promoting a culture of peace, saying it was hypocritical to expect that non-believers would promote peace if religious leaders don’t.
Francis then laid down a challenge to all those in the room to commit themselves to resolving disputes through dialogue and negotiation, not with recourse to arms.“May we never justify violence. May we never allow the sacred to be exploited by the profane. The sacred must never be a prop for power, nor power a prop for the sacred!”
Francis and al-Tayeb signed a joint Christian-Muslim document promoting human fraternity as a force for peace in 2019 — a document that Tokayev cited in his own speech opening the congress. Al-Tayeb was later given a special award by the Kazakh organizers for his interfaith work. While Francis wouldn’t meet with Kirill while in Kazakhstan, he was due to meet on the sidelines of the conference with Anthony, al-Tayeb, the head of Russia’s religious council of Muslims, Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin, as well as other Orthodox, Jewish, Lutheran and Muslim leaders.
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