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 ("To the City [Rome] and to the World") Easter address at St. Peter's Basilica, praised the framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program and expressed concern about bloodshed in Africa and the Middle East.


"[In] hope we entrust to the merciful Lord the framework recently agreed to in Lausanne, that it may be a definitive step toward a more secure and fraternal world," the pope said in his first public comment on the deal reached in Switzerland.

The pope asked for peace and denounced "arms dealers, who earn their living with the blood of men and women."

Speaking of "absurd bloodshed and all barbarous acts of violence," the pontiff singled out the fighting in places such as Yemen, Nigeria, Syria, Iraq and Libya and decried Christians targeted by Islamist extremists and "the suffering of so many of our brothers persecuted because of his name."

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In his Easter address Pope Francis praised the framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program and expressed concern about bloodshed in Africa and the Middle East.

In Easter address, Pope condemns violence against Christians

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