VATICAN CITY, MAY 17, 2000 (VIS) - At the conclusion of today's general audience, Pope John Paul observed that "in recent days fighting has broken out again between Ethiopia and Eritrea, while violence continues to strike the populations of Sierra Leone. As always, it is the civilian and defenseless people who pay the price of such unheard-of cruelty.
"I invite you to pray to the Lord for peace, that He will hear the cry of the suffering and reach the hearts and minds of the various leaders of these absurd conflicts.
"Special encouragement and a fervent prayer," the Pope concluded, "go to all persons of good will who spend their own lives in solidarity with those who suffer, as well as for organizations which dedicate themselves to increase every hope of peace."
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