World Day of Prayer for Peace: Assisi awaits Pope
Francis
(Vatican Radio) Three days of
dialogue have been organized ahead of theWorld Day of
Prayer for Peace in Assisi.
The Sant’Egidio community has
organized the series of presentations, round tables, and panel discussions on a
host of themes, from social justice and equality as keys to peace, to the local
effects of –and responses to – global challenges, to the need once again and
with an ever more unified voice decry the misuse and abuse of religion in the
service of unworthy causes.
Thirst for Peace:
religions and cultures in dialogue,
is the theme of this 30thanniversary iteration of the World Day of
Prayer for Peace, first convoked by Pope St. John Paul II in 1986. “We’ve made
important progress,” the Archbishop-emeritus of Barcelona,Card. Lluis Martinez
Sistach told Vatican Radio on the sidelines of one of the events in the city of
St. Francis.
He went on to express his
gratitude to the Sant’Egidio community for their three decades of leadership in
organizing the international event.
If the “Spirit of Assisi” is
alive and well, and bears the mark of the visionary saint who began it, Pope
Francis has brought a renewed sense of urgency to the common search for peace.
“These,” Card. Sistach said, “are the things to which we bear witness when we
come here.”
The desire – the thirst – for
peace, is constitutive of human nature: to be human is to thirst for peace.
Here in Assisi, more than 500
people representing scores of religions have come together to show their desire
to discover within their traditions the wherewithal to serve the cause of
peace, and to bear witness and give exercise to the enduring presence of that
desire and the hope for its fulfilment.
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