After saying, “War appears even more absurd,” Pope Francis called for people who report the news to “disarm words, to disarm minds and disarm the earth.”

Francis, who has been hospitalized for more than a month due to pneumonia in both his lungs, wrote a letter Friday and sent it to Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera Editor-in-Cchief Luciano Fontana, who had expressed support for the ailing Pope.

Francis asked Fontana to relaunch and amplify his appeal for peace and disarmament.

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