Archbishop Charles Scicluna this evening again called for embryos to be protected from conception and for compassion to be shown with migrants, even when one felt afraid.

As he referred to last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, he called on people to be kinder to one another. “How are we to respond to so much violence,” he asked as he said it was the biggest profanity for such events to be carried out in the name of God.

During the homily of the Christ the King celebration, being held in Zabbar, Archbishop Scicluna said Christians had to do their utmost to protect life from conception.

The embryo, he said, was the same creature which was recognised as a human at birth.

He also called on Christians to show compassion to migrants, saying they had already gone through a lot.

Christians, he said, should be respectful and loving even when they were afraid and they should never be disrespectful or racist.

Compassion, he said, had to be shown with the most vulnerable.

He called on the congregation to pray for peace in the Mediterranean and in Malta and for those in power to show compassion with the people and take decisions for the common good.