Synod for the Amazon: Pope meets
with group of indigenous people
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| Pope meets with group of indigenous people at the Synod (AFP) |
Pope Francis meets with a group of indigenous people
participating in the Synod for the Pan-Amazon Region and confirms the need to
inculturate the Gospel.
By Vatican News
On Thursday afternoon around 3.30pm, Pope Francis met with
about 40 indigenous people, some of them participants at the Synod for the
Amazon, others engaged in parallel cultural activities currently underway in
Rome. The group was accompanied by Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, and
Archbishop Roque Paloschi of Porto Velho, Brazil.
According to a statement by the Director of the Holy See
Press Office, Matteo Bruni, the meeting opened with two brief speeches, read by
a woman and a man, representing the indigenous people. “They expressed their
gratitude to the Holy Father for convoking the Synod, and asked for help in
implementing their desire to ensure a peaceful and happy life for their
peoples, caring for their land, and protecting its waters, for their
descendants to enjoy”.
Pope Francis then addressed a few words to those present,
underlining how the Gospel is like a seed, which falls onto the soil it finds,
and grows with the characteristics of that soil. With reference to the Amazon
Region, continues the Vatican Press Office statement, “the Holy Father pointed
out the dangers of new forms of colonization”.
Finally, referring to the origins of Christianity, which was
born in the Jewish world, developed in the Greek-Latin world, and then reached
other lands, Slavic, Eastern, and American, Pope Francis reiterated the need to
inculturate the Gospel so that “people can receive the announcement of Jesus
with their own culture”.
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