Pope Francis warned that the world is on the edge of a "delicate precipice" and buffeted by "winds of war"
Pope Francis warned that the world is on the edge of a "delicate precipice" and buffeted by "winds of war" as he held inter-faith talks Friday with one of Sunni Islam's top leaders in Bahrain. The 85-year-old Argentine decried the "opposing blocs" of East and West, a veiled reference to the standoff over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in a speech to religious leaders in the tiny Gulf state. "We continue to find ourselves on the brink of a delicate precipice and we do not want to fall," he told an audience including Bahrain's king and Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Cairo's prestigious Al-Azhar Mosque. "A few potentates are caught up in a resolute struggle for partisan interests, reviving obsolete rhetoric, redesigning spheres of influence and opposing blocs," he added. "We appear to be witnessing a dramatic and childlike scenario: in the garden of humanity, instead of cultivating our