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Pope, grand imam make call for peace at UN Security Council

Pope Francis, right, receives a gift from Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb of Al-Azhar, left, during a private audience at the Vatican in 2019 [File: Alberto Pizzoli/pool via Reuters]

Pope Francis and a leading Sunni imam have made calls for peace at the United Nations Security Council in New York where discussion focused on the importance of “human fraternity”.

The pope, who is in hospital recovering from abdominal surgery, sent a statement to the UN meeting on Wednesday in which he said that a third world war is being fought “piecemeal” and that humanity is suffering from a “famine of fraternity”.

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