Pope wants universal abolition death penalty

- Christian,, commandment thou shalt not kill 'applies according to Pope Francis as good for the government. He pleaded Sunday for a worldwide abolition of the death penalty. A first step in that direction is what the leader of the Catholic Church concerning a moratorium on executions.

Francis called believers in his Sermon on to make efforts for such a suspension of the execution of the death penalty. Tens of thousands of people listened to the pope in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.

Pope Francis is not averse to political statements. In recent weeks he voiced for instance strongly criticized the immigration policy of the United States in Mexico, and he suggested that presidential candidate Donald Trump is not a Christian." Someone who thinks of building walls and not on building bridges, is not a Christian, " the pope said of Trump plans to erect a boundary wall between Mexico and the US