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Pope Francis on Wednesday denounced the global arms industry, saying it was “terrible to make money from death.” “Unfortunately, today the investments that bring the greatest return are arms factories,” he said in his weekly general audience in the Vatican. Francis used the speech to appeal for peace, mentioning the war in Ukraine, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the persecution of the Muslim Rohingya minority in Myanmar by government forces. According to a study by the Stockholm International Peace Research International, a record $2.44 trillion was spent on armaments worldwide last year…

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