Zondag 6 maart 2022

Paus Franciscus: 'Stop de oorlog'

Dear brothers and sisters,

Rivers of blood and tears are flowing in Ukraine. It is not merely a military operation, but a war, which sows death, destruction and misery. The number of victims is increasing, as are the people fleeing, especially mothers and children. The need for humanitarian assistance in that troubled country is growing dramatically by the hour.

I make a heartfelt appeal for humanitarian corridors to be genuinely secured, and for aid to be guaranteed and access facilitated to the besieged areas, in order to offer vital relief to our brothers and sisters oppressed by bombs and fear.

I thank all those who are taking in refugees. Above all, I implore that the armed attacks cease and that negotiation - and common sense - prevail. And that international law be respected once again!

And I would also like to thank the journalists who put their lives at risk to provide information. Thank you, brothers and sisters, for this service! A service that allows us to be close to the tragedy of that population and enables us to assess the cruelty of a war. Thank you, brothers and sisters.

Let us pray together for Ukraine: we have its flags in front of us. Let us pray together, as brothers and sisters, to Our Lady, Queen of Ukraine. Hail Mary...

The Holy See is ready to do everything, to put itself at the service of this peace. In these days, two Cardinals went to Ukraine, to serve the people, to help. Cardinal Krajewski, the Almoner, to bring aid to the needy, and Cardinal Czerny, interim Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. The presence of the two Cardinals there is the presence not only of the Pope, but of all the Christian people who want to get closer and say: “War is madness! Stop, please! Look at this cruelty!”.

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Geschreven door Gust Adriaensen om 21:03

Maandag 28 februari 2022

Een brutale invasie

De verontwaardiging over de Russische inval in Oekraïne is groot en dat is volkomen terecht. Oorlog is onaanvaardbaar. Maar is Poetin de boze wolf en is het Westen Roodkapje, vraagt Gie Goris, journalist en voormalig hoofdredacteur van MO*, zich af, in De Standaard van 28 februari.

Ook al beklemtoont Goris zijn verontwaardiging over de Russische inval, zijn bedenkingen over wapenproductie, militaire investeringen, NAVO (die zeker elementen van een debat moeten zijn), dreigen de essentie van de situatie nu onder te sneeuwen en te vergoelijken.

Die essentie is: Rusland, d.i. Poetin, verklaart eenzijdig de oorlog aan een zelfstandig land en start een brutale invasie.

Dat Poetinisme moet een halt toegeroepen worden.

Geschreven door Gust Adriaensen om 19:55

Maandag 28 februari 2022

Pope: 'Silence all weapons'

Pope: 'Silence all weapons. Those who wage war forget humanity!'

Pope Francis renews his invitation to set aside 2 March as a Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace in Ukraine, and decries the "diabolical and perverse logic of weapons" which, he says, is far from the will of God.

By Linda Bordoni

“In these days we have been shocked by something tragic: war!”

With these words Pope Francis launched a series of appeals: for prayers and closeness to those suffering the Russian assault in Ukraine; for the opening of humanitarian corridors for those who flee; and, for political resolutions to conflicts in Ukraine and in other parts of the world.

“Many times,” he said during the Sunday Angelus, “we have prayed that this road would not be taken,” and he asked the faithful to continue to implore God more intensely.

2 March: Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace

The Pope renewed his invitation to everyone to make 2 March, Ash Wednesday, a Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace in Ukraine.

“It is a day to be close to the suffering of the Ukrainian people, to be aware that we are all brothers and sisters, and to implore God for an end to the war.”

Those who wage war forget humanity

Pope Francis went on to say that “those who wage war forget humanity: they do not start from the people; they do not look at the concrete life of the people, but put partisan interests and power in front of everything.”

“They rely on the diabolic and perverse logic of weapons which is the most distant from the will of God, and they distance themselves from the common people who want peace,” he said.

He noted that, in every conflict, “ordinary people are the real victims who pay for the follies of war with their own skin.”

The Pope added that he thinks especially “of the elderly, of those who are seeking refuge at this time, of mothers fleeing with their children.”

“They are brothers and sisters for whom it is urgent to open humanitarian corridors and who must be welcomed, with an aching heart, for what is happening in Ukraine.”

Don’t forget wars in other parts of the world

Pope Francis also invited all men and women of goodwill not to forget the wars in other parts of the world, mentioning those in Yemen, Syria, and Ethiopia.

“I repeat: May weapons be silenced! God is with the peacemakers, not with those who use violence!”

Those who love peace, the Pope continued, as the Italian Constitution states, “repudiate war as an instrument of offence to the freedom of other peoples and as a means of settling international disputes.”

Geschreven door Gust Adriaensen om 16:27

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