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One year after the aggression against Ukraine perpetrated by the Russian Federation, more than seventeen million people in the attacked country are in need of humanitarian assistance; eight million are refugees abroad; and six million are internally displaced. There are more than twenty thousand civilian casualties, and about one hundred thousand military casualties on both fronts.
Pope Francis has made countless appeals, crying out, in harmony with his predecessors, his heartfelt “No to war!” It is the same “Never again war!” that Saint Paul VI pleaded in front of the United Nations Assembly on 4 October 1965; it is that “Never again war!” that Saint John Paul II cried out – ill and unfortunately unheard – at the Angelus of 16 March 2003, to avert the wretched invasion of Iraq, the consequences of which are still visible to all after the transformation for many years of...
Pope Francis’ appeal is addressed to “those who have authority over nations to make a concrete commitment to end the conflict, to achieve a cease-fire and to start peace negotiations,” because a victory “built on rubble will never be a true victory!” And the wounds of hatred and resentment that the barbarity of war has caused will remain for certainly longer than the time needed to rebuild Ukraine.
In the face of all this, the commitment of those who help the victims and welcome the displaced is a concrete sign of hope, pointing the way to fraternity, non-violence, and peace. There is a civil society that marches, prays, works for, and invokes peace – like the one that will walk from Perugia to Assisi tonight. A civil society whose voice deserves more space.
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