Pope at General Audience: English Summary
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| Pope Francis arrives at the Paul VI Hall for the weekly General Audience.- REUTERS |
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday
reflected on his just-ended apostolic journey to Myanmar and Bangladesh
highlighting the value of interreligious dialogue undertaken in the first leg
of the journey and expressing solidarity with Bangladesh’s efforts to provide
relief to the Rohingya refugees flooding into the nation in the second leg of
the visit.
He was speaking to the crowds gathered in the Paul VI Hall
for the General Audience.
Please find below the English summary of the Pope’s
address:
Dear Brothers and Sisters: My recent Pastoral Visit to
Myanmar and Bangladesh was memorable for my encounter with those two great
peoples and for a wide variety of fruitful meetings. Mine was the first
visit of a Pope to Myanmar, a nation gradually moving towards a new experience
of freedom and peace. At Mass, in the celebration with young people, in
my encounter with interreligious leaders in that predominantly Buddhist
country, and in my meetings with the state authorities, I stressed the
importance of dialogue and cooperation in the building of a society in which
everyone, with the exclusion of none, is accepted and respected. In
Bangladesh, a country of Muslim majority, I reaffirmed the importance of
dialogue and cooperation between Christians and Muslims. I wished also to
express solidarity with the country’s efforts to provide relief amid the crisis
of the Rohingya refugees. A highlight of my celebrations with the
Catholic community was the final Mass with young people, which was attended
also by young followers of Islam and other religions. In this way, my
Pastoral Visit ended in a sign of hope for Bangladaesh, for all of Asia, and
for the whole world.
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