From the Files of a friend : Abdelkader Bouaalamm Smahri THE MESSENGER OF GOD , PEACEMAKER of ALL NATIONS Just arrived Thursday morning in Korea, where he performed a five-day visit, Pope Francis directly address the sensitive issue of tearing this country. His message was very clear: Breaking down the walls of distrust and hatred to promote a culture of reconciliation and solidarity. The northern part of Korea, padlocked by one of the harshest communist regimes in the world , however suggests no opening perspective. It remains aggressive. The morning of the Popes arrival, missiles were fired at South Korea. A good reason for this pope to step of hope. He believes that reconciliation and stability of the Korean peninsula is the only way possible and it will influence on the stability of the whole geographical area and for the entire world that is tired of war. Before the highest authorities of the country he met with the blue house, named after the color of the tiles which gives its name to the presidential palace in the capital Seoul, the Pope has encouraged everyone to not give up. We can not deter us from pursuing this goal will be good for the Korean people but for the entire region and the entire world, he said. Praise of diplomacy In a speech in English - this is a first - it then developed a eulogy of diplomacy which is a method to achieve this goal but also the art of the possible based on a firm and persevering conviction that peace can only be achieved through dialogue and listening, and discreet and not by mutual recriminations, reviews and unnecessary show of force. Advising political and civic leaders, to whom he was speaking, two virtues: The tenacity and patience. While addressing social issues in a country undergoing economic boom but subject to economic inequality and problems of management responsible for the environment, Francis explained that in a world of increasingly globalized perception common good, progress and development should not be only economic but also human. He then asked, in a country where the suicide rate is one of the highest in the world, being given special attention to the poor to vulnerable persons or those who have no voice chapter. Finally, supporting the strengthening of Korean democracy, he hoped that this nation gives priority to the globalization of solidarity. Little tangible symbol of this state mind, as he had done in Brazil, all movements of the Pope in Seoul are in a tiny KIA: a small cubic Korean car manufacturing in sharp contrast to the huge limousines after him. The president of Korea, Park Geun-Hye, who listened, thanked him for these words give hope and courage to Koreans out of plagues of a divided nation that thousands of families suffering still very practical since they have all the trouble in the world communicate. The head of state saying that South Korea was ready for a genuine reconciliation. Korean reunification Skeptics bishops This was not the notice, an hour later, the president of the Catholic Bishops Conference, Bishop Peter Kang U-il, Bishop of Cheju. Francis Pope then met all the bishops of the country, urging them not to give in to the triumphalism in spite of the success of the pastoral church to resist temptation for the Church to adopt effective management models inspired of business or worldly standards in place criteria of the Gospel. But in his introduction, Bishop Peter Kang U-He was very pessimistic about the issue of Korean reunification. The wound has been open for 66 years, he insisted, the two sides are always ready at any time to make war. Not to mention more than ten millions of people who are separated in their own family, those of the North being forced to be permanently separated from those of the South. Hence the doubt publicly expressed by the bishop: A growing heterogeneity moved. Although reunification between the two Koreas intervened, doubt comes into my heart and I wonder if we would be able to accept and embrace warmly the people of the north treating it as our own brother and as our neighbor. The plane that led from Rome to Seoul on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, Francis, rested and in great shape, came out to meet the 72 journalists from eleven nationalities accompanying for a warm greeting to a. He even offered to them, a time of silence and prayer for the Italian AP photographer killed that morning in the Middle East in use and in consequence of war, a communications work that contributes to unite the world because you always run words of peace, always, words of peace especially because what is happening in the world right now is brutal
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 03:02:24 +0000
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