Pope Francis: "The danger of an atomic war has not yet been averted"

"The world had been preserved from the atomic war, unfortunately

, which should have been averted for some time", thus

receiving in audience the participants in the Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the pontiff underlined the "serious risks to people and the planet" which are now ever greater.

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"Closed nationalisms re-emerge"

"Not only are anachronistic conflicts intensified, but closed, exasperated and aggressive nationalisms re-emerge - continues Pope Francis - and also new wars of domination, affecting civilians, the elderly, children and the sick, and causing destruction everywhere. ongoing armed conflicts are of serious concern ".

According to Pope Francis, "

to overcome misery, poverty, new slavery, and to avoid wars", again an appeal for peace in a context that the pontiff describes as regression: "After the two tragic world wars it seemed that the world had learned to progressively move towards respect for human rights, international law, various forms of cooperation. But unfortunately

"The Catholic Church is an ally of scientists"

"In the name of God who gave us the planet to safeguard and develop it, today we are called to ecological conversion to save our common home and our life together with that of future generations, instead of increasing inequalities, exploitation and destruction ", he concluded, encouraging academics" to

: today more than ever the Catholic Church is allied with the scientists who follow this inspiration, and it is also thanks to you. "

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The appeal: to refuse "death-related" searches

Rejecting "some research, inevitably destined, in concrete historical circumstances, for the purpose of death, scientists all over the world can unite in a common willingness to disarm science and form a force for peace".

The Pope warned him when he received in audience the participants in the plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.