Pope Condemns Use of Religion for Violence [View All]

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Guardian

Thursday November 18, 2004 2:16 PM

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope John Paul II received Muslim, Orthodox Christian and Jewish religious leaders from Azerbaijan, calling their visit Thursday a symbol of tolerance and declaring that religion must never be used for violent aims.

``No one has the right to present or use religion as an instrument of intolerance, as a means of aggression, of violence, of death,'' the pope told the group.

Christians, Muslims and Jews must appeal together for an end to violence in the world ``with justice for all,'' he said.

``This is the way of religions,'' he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4623137,00.html

THIS from the man who says in the new Pope biography The Pope in Winter (John Cornwell, November 2004) that women are responsible for men's bad behavior.....