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Francis also said the international community — and not just one country — should decide how to intervene. His comments on Monday represented a shift in the Vatican’s usually steadfast opposition to military force. Meanwhile, President Obama announced that Kurdish and Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. airstrikes, had recaptured the Mosul Dam.
Pope Francis on Monday blessed the use of force to stop the vicious Islamic radicals overrunning Iraq, but he said any intervention first must be backed by the international community.
His comments — in an extraordinary news conference aboard the papal plane — came as President Obama announced that Kurdish and Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. airstrikes, had recaptured the giant Mosul Dam from the extremists.
The fighters with the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, have swept across northern Iraq since June, driving 1.5 million Christians and other Iraqi minorities from their homes.
The retreat of the extremists from the dam represented their first major defeat in Iraq.
In a question-and-answer session with reporters returning with him from a five-day trip to South Korea, Francis was asked if he supported the U.S. air strikes authorized by Obama against ISIS.
“In these cases, where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor,” Francis said.
Pope Francis supports use of force to stop Islamic extremists from attacking religious minorities in Iraq - NY Daily News
Pope Francis on Monday blessed the use of force to stop the vicious Islamic radicals overrunning Iraq, but he said any intervention first must be backed by the international community.
His comments — in an extraordinary news conference aboard the papal plane — came as President Obama announced that Kurdish and Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. airstrikes, had recaptured the giant Mosul Dam from the extremists.
The fighters with the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, have swept across northern Iraq since June, driving 1.5 million Christians and other Iraqi minorities from their homes.
The retreat of the extremists from the dam represented their first major defeat in Iraq.
In a question-and-answer session with reporters returning with him from a five-day trip to South Korea, Francis was asked if he supported the U.S. air strikes authorized by Obama against ISIS.
“In these cases, where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor,” Francis said.
Pope Francis supports use of force to stop Islamic extremists from attacking religious minorities in Iraq - NY Daily News
