Pope, at military cemetery, tells arms manufacturers: 'Stop!'

Pope Francis passes graves, before a Mass at the U.S. World War II cemetery on the day Christians around the world commemorate their dead, in Nettuno, near Rome, Italy, November 2, 2017. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini

ROME (Reuters) -Pope Francis, in a visit to a military cemetery on the day Catholics remember their dead, on Tuesday urged arms manufacturers to "stop", because war "swallows up the children of the homeland".

On All Souls Day, Francis said a Mass at the French military cemetery in Rome, with its rows of white crosses the burial place of about 1,900 French and Moroccan soldiers killed in World War Two.