Pope Francis encouraged young couples not to be afraid of bringing children to the world, within the framework of the 47th day for the life that is celebrated this Sunday in Italy with the motto “transmit life, hope for the world.”
In his words after the prayer of the Angelus in the Plaza de San Pedro in the Vatican, the Holy Father joined the Italian bishops “to express my gratitude to the numerous families who will very carefully welcome the gift of life and to encourage Young couples not being afraid to bring children to the world. ”
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The Pontiff also greeted the “Italian provida movement, which celebrates its 50th anniversary” and that this Sunday has announced that the National demonstration for life will be held on May 10 in Rome.
“On the subject of the primary value of human life, I reiterate the ‘no’ to war, which destroys, destroys everything, destroys life and induces to despise it. And let’s not forget that war is always a defeat, ”said Pope Francis.
“In this jubilee year, I renew my call, especially to the Christian rulers, so that they put the maximum commitment to the negotiations to end all the ongoing conflicts. Let’s pray for peace in the martyred Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Myanmar, Sudan, North Kiwu, ”the Pontiff encouraged.
Francisco also recalled that this Monday, February 3, he will be held in the Vatican “the International Summit on the Rights of the Child, entitled ‘Let them and protect them’, which I have had the joy of promoting and in which I will participate.”
“It is a unique opportunity to get the world’s attention to the most urgent problems that affect the life of the little ones. I invite you to join me in prayer for their success, ”he said.
Queen Rania de Jordan, the Italian life senator Liliana Segre, survivor of the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz; The Indian activist, Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 with Malala Yousafzai, and Al Gore, former US vice president, are just some of the participants of this event that the Pope announced on November 20.
That day Pope Francis stressed that the summit “will be an opportunity to identify new ways to rescue and protect millions of children still without rights, who live in precarious conditions, are exploited and mistreated, suffer the dramatic dramatic consequences consequences of wars” .
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.