“Warfare is a deception,” says the Pope

VATICAN CITY (EFE).— Yesterday, the Pope thanked 30 Nobel Peace Prize winners who convened lately within the Vatican for his or her work “of silent sowing” in opposition to struggle, which he described as “a deception, similar to the concept of a global safety based mostly on the deterrence of concern.”

“On a planet on fireplace, you gathered with the intention of reaffirming your ‘no’ to struggle and your ‘sure’ to peace, testifying to the humanity that unites us,” Francis stated originally of the viewers he granted to the contributors within the “World Assembly on Fraternity”.

The assembly, which additionally contains personalities from the world of science, politics, artwork and sports activities, to mirror on human fraternity and how you can “construct a world of peace” sooner or later, concluded yesterday, following two days of debates. and spherical tables on matters corresponding to peace, meals techniques or sustainability.

The Pope, who quoted Martin Luther King (“We’ve got realized to fly like birds, to swim like fish, however we’ve not but realized the straightforward artwork of residing collectively as brothers”), insisted that the important thing to coexistence is “the compassion”.

“This followingnoon they’ll meet at twelve factors in Vatican Metropolis and Rome, to precise the intention of producing a motion of fraternity” and “some proposals might be introduced to civil society, targeted on the dignity of the human particular person, to construct good insurance policies,” he stated.

And he inspired them “to proceed their work of silent sowing”, from which, he added, “a ‘Code of the human being’ might be born, which incorporates, together with rights, additionally the behaviors and sensible causes for what we makes extra people in life.”

Within the “World Assembly on Fraternity” figures from completely different fields take part and together with the Nobel Peace Prize winners, amongst them the Guatemalan Rigoberta Menchú or the Costa Rican Carlos Umaña, there are additionally the director of NASA, Invoice Nelson, the mayor of Nueva York, Eric Leroy Adams or Nelson Mandela’s widow, Graça Machel.