In the session held on Monday in the semester Pablo VI, with about three thousand media workers, Pope Liu XIII reminds the victims of repression against freedom of information. Without border report, 550 of the two professionals who have been imprisoned, talks 7 % more since 2023. 124 historians who were killed last year.
Guglielmo Gallone – Vatican Ciudad
Nearly three thousand media workers who were received in the semester Paul VI on Monday, May 12, Pope Liu fourteenth wanted to remind the world that he was primary but he greatly denied the truth: Freedom of the press is the first victim of all war, and it is the first invasion that every authoritarian power tries to try. Because behind it is the freedom to speak and think. In this suffocation is the wound not only for a professional category, but from human dignity, justice, for the possibility of choice.
Last year, a hundred and twenty journalists were killed
Numbers talk about a problem far from insulation or decline. he A committee to protect journalists (CPJ) knows that a hundred and twenty journalists have been killed during the year 2024, the highest character in the past thirty years, even from the 2007 historical record (one hundred thirteen), ninety -nine disappeared in the match in the dark conditions, and until December 1, 2024, it was recorded three hundred, and the other, which is the second highest number in history. RSF report on five hundred fifty imprisoned journalists, an increase of 7 % compared to 2023.
In addition to emphasizing the fact that at least 24 journalists were intentionally killed because of their work, CPJ adds that more than a third – forty -three – among all journalists and workers in the media who were killed last year they were independent:
The New York -based committee says in New York:
In 2024, UNESCO recorded the largest number of murders in war areas in the past decade: 60 % of the victims were workers from the media designated to report the truth from the front. The numbers are not cold statistics, but live meat: behind each character, there is a broken face, story, life, or hanging life.
The most affected areas
The most dangerous geographical regions in 2024 were the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, Latin America and Sub -Africa. In these contexts, the press is important. It is a profession where the vulnerable voice does not reach, as the suffering is hidden.
The Pope said, but we do not need “muscles”, but the communication that he listens to, welcomes, welcomes this. This illuminates the ends of history. It is not a coincidence that Pope Liu XIV called on reporters yesterday.
They realized “the value of those who defend dignity, justice and the right of peoples to be informed, because only enlightened peoples can make free decisions. The suffering of these journalists who have been imprisoned challenges the conscience of nations and the international community, and they all call us to protect the precious good in freedom of expression and the press.”
Words that disarm them
The Pope’s words invite you to remember how many journalists are still threatening, living in prison, and disappearing in silence. The Pope is asked not to give up fear. Each Pope asks not to get used to his suffering. Because – as Leo XIV said – “Dismantling words is the first step to disarm the earth.” And who says the truth is a profession by the profession.
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