There Syria adds to the list of worries and sorrows of Dad. The war, which brought Francis to proclaim in 2013, a few months after his election, a day of fasting and prayer, perhaps among the first of the pontificatereturns like a nightmare from the past.
“We pray for Syria where unfortunately the war reignited causing many victims. I’m very close to the Church in Syrialet us pray,” asked the Dad toAngelusduring which he reiterated that «war is a horror, war offends God and humanity, war spares no one, war is always a defeat, a defeat for all humanity.”
In the words of Dad images of the conflicts that are currently blooding the world flow, fromUkraine al Middle East. But there is “a glimmer of peace” and it is the truce signed between Israel And Lebanon. «I welcome the ceasefire that was reached in recent days Lebanon and I hope that it can be respected by all parties, thus allowing the populations affected by the conflict, both Lebanese and Israeli, to return home quickly and safely, also with the precious help – underlines Pope Francis – of the Lebanese army and the peacekeeping forces of United Nations». A glimmer of hope that can push the parties and the international community to go further.
«My hope – says explicitly the Pontiffat the end of the Marian prayer a St. Peter’s Square – is that the glimmer of peace that has opened up can lead to a ceasefire on all other fronts, especially Gaza». “I care very much about the liberation of the Israelis who are still held hostage,” he assures Francis which in recent months has not always had a peaceful relationship with the Jewish world. But the Dad at the same time it says how fundamental «access to people is humanitarian aid to the exhausted Palestinian population.”
Staying at Middle EastThe Dad invites the Lebanon to raise your head, to elect the President of the Republic and to implement the reforms necessary for the country to emerge from a crisis that has lasted for too many years.
The look of Pontiff then he goes back to the “tormented one Ukraine» with the winter, very cold in that part ofEuropenow upon us. «They will be very difficult months», comments the Dadbecause “the concomitance of war and cold is tragic”. Christmas and while we await the birth of the King of Peace give these populations concrete hope.”
The Dad he then reiterated that «the search for peace it is a responsibility not of a few but of everyone. If addiction and indifference to the horrors of war prevail, the entire human family is defeated.” «Let us not tire of praying for that population so severely tried and let us implore them to God the gift of peace», he concluded.
History shows that a different path is possible. For this reason the Dad remembered the 40th anniversary of Treaty of Peace and Friendship Between Argentina And Chilesigned also thanks to the mediation of Holy See. “When you renounce the use of weapons and engage in dialogue, you are on a good path,” he concluded Pope Francis.