Pope calls for peaceful encounter of religions and true religious freedom - Independent Catholic News

Pope calls for peaceful encounter of religions and true religious freedom - Independent Catholic News: Pope Francis today urged representatives of different religions to foster a peaceful encounter of believers and genuine religious freedom. Speaking to some 200 people gathered in the Vatican for an interreligious audience, Pope Francis reflected on the soon-to-end Year of Mercy saying that mercy extends also to the world around us, 'to our common home, which we are called to protect and preserve from unbridled and rapacious consumption.' He pointed out that in today's hectic and forgetful world we need the oxygen of gratuitous and life-giving love: 'We thirst for mercy and no technology