Pope Francis Delivers Easter Message and Urbi et Orbi Blessing of the Holy Father

‘We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups’

Pope Francis' Easter message: End violence and oppression (CNN)

(CNN)Pope Francis reminded the world of the Vatican's status as a state and his role as a moral diplomat in his traditional speech given at the end of Easter Mass.

The Pontiff lamented the suffering of people in the conflicts currently making headlines and called for violence everywhere to end.

Foremost, he asked that bloodshed end in Iraq and Syria and that humanitarian aid get to those in need.

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