“Let us not forget what is happening in Nagorno-Karabakh (map), where the armed clashes are taking place amid a fragile truce, with the tragic increase in victims, destruction of homes, buildings and places of worship, with an increasing massive involvement of the civil population,” Pope Francis said on November 1. “I am near to all those who are suffering, and I invite [everyone] to ask the intercession of the Saints for a stable peace in that region.”