Pope Francis used his Christmas message on Sunday to lament the “icy winds of war” buffeting humanity and to make an impassioned plea for an immediate end to the fighting in Ukraine, a conflict he decried as “senseless”.
Francis delivered the traditional Urbi et Orbi speech from the central balcony of St Peter's Basilica to tens of thousands of tourists, pilgrims and residents of Rome crowded into St Peter’s Square.
