Pope Francis declared that “the world is at war” after two knife-wielding attackers linked with ISIS stormed a French church and slit the throat of a priest.
He told reporters. “This is war. The world has been at war for a while now … We had the war of 1914, then the war in 1939-45, and now this one.”.
He said this after Islamists burst into a church during worship where they then forced the elderly priest to get on his knees at the altar then sliced his throat. They then filmed themselves shouting praise to Allah and did a sermon around the Christian altar in Arabic.