Milan, 22 December (LaPresse) – ‘With pain I think of Gaza, of the children machine-gunned, the bombing of schools and hospitals. How much cruelty’. So said Pope Francis at the end of the Angelus prayer linked from Casa Santa Marta. Bergoglio returned to call for a ‘ceasefire’ on ‘all the war fronts’ from the ‘Holy Land’ to ‘Ukraine’.