\u00abYou ask us to join your appeal. For my part, I will do so, and I ask the Heads of State and Government to do the same. Your voice \u2013 weak, but strong in the hope and courage of youth \u2013 can be heard on 10 December at the United Nations.\u00bb Pope Francis supports and relaunches the Appeal at the core of the global campaign\u00a0Leaders for Peace,\u00a0<\/i>presented today by the Rondine association during the private audience at the Clementine Hall<\/b>, in the Vatican. He does so by inviting State leaders to visit Rondine and personally meet these youngsters, coming from conflict places, that every day strive for dialogue with their own \u201cenemy\u201d and are training to become future peace leaders.<\/p>\n
\u00abThere is a need for leaders with a new mentality. Those who do not know how to dialogue and exchange with each other are not leaders of peace: a leader who does not try to meet the \u201cenemy\u201d, to sit with him at the table as you do, can not lead his people to peace. In order to do this we need humility, not arrogance: may Saint Francis help you to follow this path with courage. [\u2026]\u00a0I hope your leaders go to Rondine, and see how their young people are preparing peace<\/b>.\u00bb<\/p>\n
Today one hundred fifty people, including students, friends and supporters of Rondine, took part in the meeting with the Holy Father, who celebrated with them the twentieth anniversary of the Tuscan association, together with Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, president of the Episcopal Conference of Italy, Mons. Nunzio Galantino and Mons. Riccardo Fontana, Bishop of Arezzo \u2013 Cortona \u2013 Sansepolcro: \u00a0a moment of celebration, witnessing the Pope blowing the twenty candles with the youngsters who are preparing to take the\u00a0Leaders for Peace\u00a0<\/i>campaign to the United Nations.<\/p>\n
\u00abListening to a young Palestinian and a young Israeli who together ask the governments of the world to take a step that can reopen the future, transferring the cost of a weapon from the defense budget to the education budget to form a peace leader, is a rare thing, it is a bright thing! How could you disagree? But we adults can not get away saying \u201cWell done!\u201d, no.\u00a0I feel I have to give you all my support, my sympathy, my blessing.<\/b>\u00bb<\/p>\n
On December the 10th, the association will be at the UN Headquarter in New York to request support from the 193 Member States and the international community for the education of new global peace leaders and the spread of human rights education in the national school systems.<\/p>\n
\u00ab[\u2026] your appeal contains and proposes a concrete vision. In the Message for the next World Day of Peace, on 1 January 2019, which has as its theme\u00a0Good politics is at the service of peace<\/i>, I reiterate that political responsibility belongs to every citizen, in particular to those who have received the mandate to protect and to rule. This mission consists in safeguarding the law and encouraging dialogue between the actors of society, between generations and between cultures. Listening to you I add: between the parties in conflict. Because trust is created only in dialogue.\u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00abIt is good that with your method you want to reach citizens and political leaders, representatives of national and international institutions at the same time. Indeed, peace is everyone\u2019s responsability\u00bb replied the Pontifex. \u00abMay you help break down the highest walls, build bridges and eliminate impassable borders, the legacy of a world that is ending.\u00bb<\/p>\n
Just a few days before the meeting with the Pope, a delegation from Rondine had the chance to present the campaign to the diplomatic corps to the Holy See<\/b>. \u00abPolitics must regain its role of social mediation in building the common good and a willingness to collaborate in the search for shared solutions, both internationally and in relations between the States within civil society against the prevalence of new forms of hatred and intolerance. A context that today endangers the dialogue on human rights that we have the duty to protect and implement.\u00bb These are the words the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal\u00a0Pietro Parolin<\/b>,\u00a0pronounced during the meeting\u00a0organized in collaboration with the Ambassador\u00a0George Poulides,\u00a0Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, and held November 28, 2018. Cardinal Parolin then joined the support towards\u00a0the three-year global campaign\u00a0Leaders for Peace <\/i>– the campaign Appeal has been read to the Diplomatic staff by two youngers, one Palestinian and the other Israeli. \u00abThese youngsters together, stayed truth to their own populations, but at the same time they identified and dissolved the negative images of the enemy. Rondine has chosen concreteness, aims to go on nurturing hope in this world, step by step\u00bb concludes Vaccari. \u00abEducating peace leaders to spread all around the world a new educative method. Educate many new leaders with a new method able to deal with sufferings and to wipe out from the planet the supreme pain of war. This is the duty that nowadays we can share and, together, achieve!\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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