Pope Francis

Francis: In his annual foreign policy address to Vatican-based ambassadors, Francis called for a unanimous response from the international community to end fundamentalist terrorism in the Mideast. And he called for Muslim leaders in particular to condemn extremist interpretations of their faith that seek to justify such violence, according to The Telegram. Francis said the Paris attacks were the result of a throwaway culture in which human beings and even God are rejected outright. Referring to the tragic slayings in Paris, Francis said those responsible had become enslaved by new fads and deviant forms of religion and Pope Francis on Monday denounc ed the religious fundamentalism that inspired the Paris massacres and ongoing Mideast conflicts, saying the attackers were enslaved by deviant forms of religion that used God as a mere ideological pretext to perpetuate mass killings. The leader of the 1.2-billion strong Catholic Church has stepped up his call for Muslim political, religious and intellectual leaders to vocally insist Islam doesn t condone such violence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.