“Let us speak out and insist that religious freedom be guaranteed for everyone in every part of our world. Let us also condemn the manipulation of religions,” he asked on the hill where Paul Miki and 25 other Christians were martyred.
“International peace and stability are incompatible with fear of mutual destruction or threat of total annihilation,” he recalls.
He celebrated evening Mass at the Cathedral of the Assumption in Bangkok, to conclude his time in Thailand.
He had an interreligious meeting at the most important university in Thailand.