Pope Francis used strong words to condemn abortion in his Christmas Day message. In front of tens of thousands of believers in St Peter’s Square in Rome, the head of 1.3 billion Catholics drew a comparison between abortions and the suffering of children in armed conflicts or as refugees. “How many innocents are being slaughtered in our world. In their mothers’ wombs, in odysseys undertaken in desperation and in search of hope, in the lives of all those little ones whose childhoodhas been devastated by war,” the 87-year-old said. The Argentinian has been the head of the Catholic Church for more…