Pope’s video message to World
Indigenous Youth Gathering in Panama
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| Pope Francis with indigenous people in the Vatican on May 30, 2018.(AFP) |
In the video message, Pope Francis is addressing young
indigenous people from around the globe who are holding the World Indigenous
Youth Gathering in Soloy, Panama, from January 17 to 21.
By Vatican News
Pope Francis on Friday addressed a video message to the
world’s young indigenous people holding their World Indigenous Youth
Gathering in Soloy, Diocese of David, Panama,
from January 17 to 21. The young people will then move on to
Panama city to join the World Youth Day (WYD) 2019, January
22-27, which the Pope is joining on January 23.
Speaking in Spanish, the Pope is encouraging the indigenous
young people to hold on to their cultures and roots by fighting
marginalization, exclusion, waste and impoverishment that is threatening them
and build another world that is possible and that is more just and human.
lease find below a working translation of the Pope's
video message:
Dear young people,
At the end of World Youth Day in Krakow in July 2016, I
told the young volunteers: “We assume the memory of our past to build the
future with courage”. And this is the motto that you have chosen for this World
Meeting of Indigenous Youth that brought you together from January 17 to 21 of
this year (pre-GMG) in Soloy, Comarca Ngäbe-Buglé, diocese of David, Panama.
I congratulate you because this is the first time that a
pre-WYD meeting has been organized specifically for youth of indigenous and
native peoples at the world level. It is an initiative for which I would like
to thank the Section for the Pastoral Care of the Indigenous People of the
Bishops' Conference of Panama, supported by CELAM.
Dear young people, I urge you that this meeting, which
brings together hundreds of young people from different native peoples, may
serve to reflect and celebrate your faith in Jesus Christ starting from the
millennial richness of your original cultures. I urge that this be an
opportunity for you to respond to the invitation, addressed to young people at
other times, to be grateful for the history of your peoples and courageous in
the face of the challenges that surround you, to move forward full of hope in
building another possible world.
Return to native cultures. Take care of the roots,
because from the roots comes the strength that will make you grow, prosper and
bear fruit. It must also be a way of showing the indigenous face of our Church
in the context of WYD and of affirming our commitment to protect the Common House
and to collaborate in building another possible world, that is more
just and more human.
Undoubtedly, the themes that, according to the programme,
will be the object of your reflection, will stimulate the search for answers,
from an evangelical perspective, to so many and so scandalous situations of
marginalization, exclusion, waste and impoverishment to which millions of young
people are condemned, especially the youth of native peoples, in the world. May
your actions, the awareness of belonging to your peoples, be a reaction against
this culture of waste, against this culture of forgetting your roots, projected
towards a future that is ever more liquid, gaseous and without foundation.
Boys and girls, take care of your cultures! Take care of
your roots! But don't stop there: from those roots grow, flower, bear fruit. A
poet has said that "everything that the tree hasin bloom, comes from
what is underground.” The roots . But
roots taken into the future. Projected into the future. This is
your challenge today.
It will be a pleasure for me to meet you in Panama. And
in the meantime, my best wishes for the meeting and I give you my blessing.
Jatuaida , Jamorogodre.
May God bless you!
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