John Paul II Foundation joins peace march in Arezzo on Saturday, Jan. 27
The John Paul II Foundation will participate in Saturday's March for Peace through the streets of Arezzo.
The coming together, women and men, of different religions and cultures, united by remembrance, by memory, walking to ask for peace is important in this particular historical moment we are living. Walking together is a sign of hope and, at the same time, of closeness with those who cannot do so because they are under bombs or inhabitants of undemocratic countries.
In these weeks in which the only voices we hear are the cries of those being killed, tortured, oppressed in many countries around the world, we in silence will walk beside each other, because every woman or man is my brother and sister.
The John Paul II Foundation, established over 25 years ago, joins and will ask its friends and supporters to participate in the March to reaffirm the centrality of man and his rights: the right to peace, the right to work, the right to health care, the right to study, the right to childhood. The wars that are plaguing our world, the only one we have, are causing victims especially among children and girls, women, the elderly and people with disabilities. This is unacceptable to us.
"The doom of a world war with its economic and social ruins and aberrations and moral disruptions must not be allowed to fall upon humanity for the third time," Pope Pius XII said in his message to the world on the occasion of Christmas 1941.