DW Theodoros Andreadis Siggelakis, Rome
VIDEO: Some 600,000 Catholics attend the re-enactment of the Passion of Christ, a long-standing annual event held in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district that had been suspended for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic pic.twitter.com/zHho19OyRd
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After the service of the Catholic Easter, addressing the faithful, Francis called for an end to the demonstrations of power and “not to get used to the war, to call on everyone, with a loud voice, for peace, from the balconies and from the streets.”
This is Catholic Spain on Good Friday pic.twitter.com/Tptvx3Kcus
– Sachin Jose (@Sachinettiyil) April 15, 2022
This message of the Pope is, of course, addressed, as he stressed, to the rulers as well. But he did not fail to mention the insight of the scientists, who, with the Russell Einstein Manifesto, almost seventy years ago, had posed the main question about the effects of the use of nuclear weapons: “Will the human race end, or will humanity abandon the war?
«Peace is possible»
Francis referred to orphans, to flat houses, to the elderly affected by the war in Ukraine. “I remember the look of children who have lost their parents, and are trying to leave the war behind,” said the Argentine pope. But there is also a ray of light. Francis praised the acts of solidarity of those who decided to host thousands of refugees and wished, this example, to help us overcome our selfishness and individualism. “Every war has a series of consequences. “Peace is possible, it is our duty, it is the responsibility of all of us,” the Holy Father of the Catholics told the faithful. He then gave the traditional wish of urbi et orbi, to the city and the universe, from the balcony to St. Peter’s Square was decorated with 40,000 flowers from the Netherlands.
In his speech, the Pope wanted to speak to the hearts of the faithful and all people of good will. Without reports of a narrow, political nature. To avoid, most likely, individual, annoying reactions. As happened with the participation, on the Catholic Street of Martyrdom, the Via Crucis in the Colosseum, of a Ukrainian and a Russian nurse, Irina and Albina. The will of the pope, however, is to send, at all costs, his message. That we lift, in essence, all together the Cross of martyrdom, and that the consequences of tragic and irrational choices, can not and should not leave indifferent, absolutely no one.
Catholic Church in Africa ❤️ pic.twitter.com/abrQGSOgrJ
– Sachin Jose (@Sachinettiyil) April 16, 2022
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