
On Thursday the pontiff criticised use of the death penalty and urged nations to respect human rights. The pope's visit to Bahrain has been shadowed by accusations of rights abuses, particularly against Shiites in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, allegations Manama rejects. The pontiff's 39th international trip since taking office comes three years after he signed a Muslim-Christian manifesto for peace in the United Arab Emirates during the first papal visit to the Gulf region, where Islam was born. What's important is that we carry them out together and that they're not exploited for other goals," he said. Ahead of the pope's speech, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who met Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in September, told journalists that there had been "a few small signs" of progress in negotiations with Moscow. Tayeb warned that "market economics, monopolisation of resources, greed and arms sales to the Third World" were "manufacturing victims of war". Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Cairo's prestigious Al-Azhar mosque and centre of Sunni learning, also addressed the gathering. In his speech on Friday, Francis warned that "a few potentates are caught up in a resolute struggle for partisan interests, reviving obsolete rhetoric, redesigning spheres of influence and opposing blocs." "Instead of cultivating our surroundings, we are playing instead with fire, missiles and bombs, weapons that bring sorrow and death, covering our common home with ashes and hatred," he said.

His visit comes with the Ukraine war in its ninth month, and tensions growing on the Korean Peninsula.
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"We continue to find ourselves on the brink of a delicate precipice and we do not want to fall." Francis, who has made religious dialogue a pillar of his papacy, was speaking on the first full day of his trip to the tiny island state, where he arrived on Thursday afternoon. "We are living at a time when humanity, connected as never before, appears much more divided than united," he said during a speech to religious leaders in the Gulf kingdom. Pope Francis warned in Bahrain on Friday that "opposing blocs" and global divisions have put humanity on a "delicate precipice", a veiled reference to the Ukraine war. “The story comes out of putting obstacles in people’s way and then concluding their paths, and then everything else is for fun.” “It can be a lot happening, where people are going up into each other buttholes to go back in time… or we can have a show that’s literally just one scene about two brothers in their beds talking about their lives before they go to sleep,” he said. “In the first five minutes of the show when we’re trying to figure out what it is, we want to have it so flexible that it can be whatever it needs to be,” Middleditch said. It involves several emotionally complex characters with interwoven storylines - and all of their inspiration comes from briefly interviewing audience members about their lives.Īlso Read: Stars Who Have Tested Positive for Coronavirus (Photos) And then I ride away on an electric skateboard, which is pretty cool.”Īll joking aside, what Middleditch and Schwartz pull off over the course of an hour-and-20-minute show is a complete story arc they create out of thin air. “And I flick it at their chest, and then I do a D-X from ’90s WWE, and then I bring in a Wolfpac from WCW, I’m doin’ em all. “Typically, when I wanna take it outside of Hamilton, which I sometimes do, when someone’s like, ‘Hey, how do I do improv?’ I light a cigarette, and I go, ‘You just gotta have it, kid,'” Middleditch said.

But I think Thomas explains it in mostly ‘Hamilton’ songs,” Schwartz said. “It’s starting with nothing, and then we build off each other until we’ve grown out this entire world and we can play within the world. He was interrupted by Middledtich bursting into the song “The Room Where It Happens” from the musical Hamilton. “It’s a hard thing to explain - it’s more exciting to be in the room where it happens.”Īlso Read: Ben Schwartz Tells Us Exactly What Jean-Ralphio From 'Parks and Rec' Would be Doing in Quarantine (Video) “I think one of the basic things that people talk about is, you start out with an idea and you say, ‘Yes, and,'” Schwartz said.
