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Pope Francis has marked Good Friday with a traditional torch-lit ceremony around the Colosseum in Rome and prayers for a Middle East "torn apart by injustice and https://www.goldengooseshoesit.com/ conflicts".

The newly-elected Argentine Pope presided over the re-enactment of the last hours of Jesus Christ's last hours, praying for Christians in the region and for "our Muslim brothers".

"Christians must respond to evil with good, taking the cross upon themselves as Jesus did," said Francis, who followed the ceremony from under a canopy overlooking the 2,000-year-old Roman amphitheatre.

The Pope also referred to a visit to Lebanon last year by his predecessor Benedict XVI, who stunned the world by resigning last month at the age of 85.

"We saw the beauty and the strong bond of communion joining Christians together in that land and the friendship of our Muslim brothers and so many others," the 76-year-old Pope said.

Brazilian, Chinese, Italian, Lebanese and Nigerian faithful took turns carrying a wooden cross around the Colosseum, where it is Golden Goose Outlet commonly believed that Christians were martyred.

Prayers read out at the ceremony were written by a group of Lebanese young people chosen by the Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai, who was given the task by Benedict XVI.

"Come, Holy Spirit, to console and strengthen Christians, especially those from the Middle East so that, united in Christ, they may be witnesses of your universal love in an area torn apart by injustice and conflicts," read one of the prayers.

Another referred to the wars "which in our days devastate various countries in the Middle East".

"Let us pray that the displaced and the forced migrants may soon return to their homes and lands," it said.

A third prayer referred to Middle East Christians "stripped by various difficulties, sometimes to the point of persecution, and weakened by emigration", asking that they have "the courage to remain in their countries."