Pope Francis said Saturday that he was saddened by the Paris attacks that killed 129 people and injured 352 others and asked people to join him in "prayer for the victims and their families."
Pope Francis also warned that a "piecemeal" World War III might have begun because of the recent spate of crimes, massacres and destruction.
"War is madness," the Pope said Saturday at a memorial to 100,000 Italian World War I soldiers at Redipuglia military cemetery near Slovenia, BBC News reports.
"Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep," he said. "Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction."
The pontiff said on Twitter:
President Francois Hollande Saturday described the attacks by gunmen and bombers across Paris, claimed by the Islamic State, as an act of war against France.
Pope Francis earlier Saturday condemned the killings as unjustifiable "inhuman" acts that left him shaken and pained.
"There is no justification for these things," he said in an extremely somber voice in a telephone call to an Italian Catholic television station. "This is not human," he said, adding that he was praying for the victims, their families and all the French people.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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