With Saturday’s establishment of South Sudan as the world’s newest nation, the Vatican spokesman had an exhortation for the international country: Let us not allow this nation to fail.
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, reflected on South Sudan in the most recent edition of Vatican Television’s “Octava Dies.”
He spoke of hopes that the nation might begin “a new history of peace.”
The Jesuit recalled addresses that Pope John Paul II gave during a few-hour stop in Khartoum in 1993.
The Pontiff repeated what he had said to the Vatican diplomatic corps the month before: He spoke of his hope “that the Sudanese, with the freedom to choose, will succeed in finding a constitutional formula which will make it possible to overcome contradictions and struggles, with proper respect paid to the specific characteristics of each community.”
“It is difficult at this moment not to think of all the prayers and sufferings of those affected by the continuing conflict in this land, especially in the South,” the Holy Father also said, referring to the civil war that tormented Sudan for two decades.
“The winds of change are demanding renewed structures of economic and political organization, structures which will genuinely respect human dignity and human rights,” the Polish Pontiff added that day.
VATICAN CITY, JULY 10, 2011 (Zenit.org)
With Saturday’s establishment of South Sudan as the world’s newest nation, the Vatican spokesman had an exhortation for the international country: Let us not allow this nation to fail.
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, reflected on South Sudan in the most recent edition of Vatican Television’s “Octava Dies.”
He spoke of hopes that the nation might begin “a new history of peace.”
The Jesuit recalled addresses that Pope John Paul II gave during a few-hour stop in Khartoum in 1993.
The Pontiff repeated what he had said to the Vatican diplomatic corps the month before: He spoke of his hope “that the Sudanese, with the freedom to choose, will succeed in finding a constitutional formula which will make it possible to overcome contradictions and struggles, with proper respect paid to the specific characteristics of each community.”
“It is difficult at this moment not to think of all the prayers and sufferings of those affected by the continuing conflict in this land, especially in the South,” the Holy Father also said, referring to the civil war that tormented Sudan for two decades.
“The winds of change are demanding renewed structures of economic and political organization, structures which will genuinely respect human dignity and human rights,” the Polish Pontiff added that day.
VATICAN CITY, JULY 10, 2011 (Zenit.org)
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