“‘Build bridges, not walls’ was an exhortation he repeated many times,” Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re said of the late pontiff, who often pushed against the tides of geopolitics.
A militant attack that killed 26 people in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir has brought ties between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan to their lowest point in years.
The president’s comments came after he said Crimea “will stay with Russia,” a position backed by the mayor of Kyiv, who conceded that his country may have to give up territory.