VATICAN CITY -- For the thousands of people who turned out for a solemn vigil in St. Peter's Square, the power of prayer and hopes for peace are still mightier than the world's weapons and wars."Instead of using hatred, we are using prayer because it's the only thing that can bring calm and peace to everything," Michele Di Stadio, 20, told Catholic News Service.
Di Stadio came with 30 other young people from the Neocatechumenal Way in Rome, he said, "to pray so that a war that would only cause a world catastrophe wouldn't happen."