ROME: Pope Francis urged world leaders on Friday (Saturday in Manila) to use the coronavirus emergency as an opportunity to reform the injustices of the global economy and the “perverse logic” of the nuclear deterrence doctrine, warning that increased isolationist responses to problems “must not prevail.”

POPE AMID PANDEMIC In this image grabbed from a UNTV video, Pope Francis speaks in a prerecorded message that was played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the global body's headquarters in New York on Sept. 25, 2020. AP PHOTO

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