Religion should never be used as excuse or pretext for war, Pope Benedict XVI said in a message to interfaith leaders gathered for a summit on peace.
"No one is therefore permitted to use the motive of religious difference as a reason or pretext for bellicose behaviour toward other human beings," Benedict said in the message.
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Violence is not caused by faith itself, the pope said, but "by the cultural limits with which it is lived and with which it develops in time."
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