GIVE PEACE A CHANCE!
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| International Peace Day.- RV |
(Vatican Radio) International Day of Peace observed around
the world on 21 September focuses this year on engaging and mobilizing people
throughout the world to show support for refugees and migrants.
Fr. Cedric Prakash sj, a human rights activist from India
and now working for JRS Lebanon reflecting on the theme of the current
year “Together for Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity for All” says
that the theme is based on the TOGETHER global campaign
that promotes respect, safety and dignity for everyone forced to flee their
homes in search of a better life. TOGETHER brings together the
organizations of the United Nations System, the 193 member countries of the
United Nations, the private sector, civil society, academic institutions and
individual citizens in a global partnership in support of diversity,
non-discrimination and acceptance of refugees and migrants.
Expressing his deep concern for the people suffering in
different parts of the world and the insensitivity of the world leaders towards
refugees, minorities and weaklings of the society he says that it is
therefore necessary to remind ourselves that each one of us is called to be a
channel of peace and that we need to have the courage to hold our leaders
accountable in ensuring peace for all.
Pope Francis he says has consistently and
unequivocally asserted the need for peace. He further quotes the Pope’s letter
to the International Meeting “Paths of Peace” held in Germany from
September 10th to 12th in which he wrote,
“what we may not and must not do is remain indifferent, allowing tragedies
of hatred to pass unnoticed, and men and women to be cast aside for the sake of
power and profit. Your meeting in these days, and your desire to blaze
new paths of peace and for peace, can be seen as a response to the call to
overcome indifference in the face of human suffering. I thank you for this, and
for the fact that you have gathered, despite your differences, to seek
processes of liberation from the evils of war and hatred. For this to happen,
the first step is to feel the pain of others, to make it our own, neither
overlooking it nor becoming inured to it. We must never grow accustomed or
indifferent to evil”.
The General Assembly has declared this day as a day devoted
to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and
peoples.
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