“The Christians of the Holy Land need help us now”

Stefano Lizshenski – Vatican City

Inviting the sense of all churches in the world to generously gain the group of Holy Land, which occurs every year on the Great Friday. Dicastery governor of the Eastern Churches, Cardinal Claudio Ghoghotti, does not hide his concerns in front of the drama that the Christians shared with their brothers from other confessions.

“Those who need our help now,” the governor explained in phrases to the Vatican media.

Real and authentic dialogue is necessary

In his message addressed to the bishops and published it on March 17 to increase awareness of the importance of the group at this historical moment, the Cardinal Ghogorata remembers “crying”, “despair” and “destruction” that was recorded in the Holy Land in recent years of violence and conflict.

“In particular, for this reason, our call for the Christians of the Holy Land becomes a general appeal until this calamity ends quickly and immediately, to this kind of looting that everyone is distributed as if it were a private property. The governor told the Eastern Churches that the Earth belongs to people, which reflects the need to re -establish a real and real dialogue.

The silent world, the Pope does not

There is no place for armed peace, which only prefers individual and party interests, and the Cardinal Agustroi emphasizes thinking about many crisis scenarios in the Middle East. In addition to Gaza and the western tape, the same dynamic is cloned in Syria and Lebanon, but the view can also be expanded to what is happening in Ukraine or in African and Asian continents. All the contexts raised by Pope Francis strongly.

“It is frightening, and at the same time comfortable – Cardinal said – see how we missed the Pope’s voice these days of illness. Not only for the Holy Land, but for all the places where injustice fights and lived it. Many have told me at this time: The world is smiling if the Pope is Calla. It is the sound that rises in the name of humans.

Defending human dignity

It is always the commitment of the Church to defend the sanctity of life, and at this most priority historical moment. Many projects that were designed for the Holy Land have been reduced “reduced, slow, suspected or canceled”, and a reading in the synthesis report published by the Holy Land Civilization, because due to the conflict, activities that “directly affect people” were absorbed.

“The pictures that come to us from the Holy Land are images that rob our dream, which leave us breathless. The governor said and repeated: “It is not something that has human dignity.”

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Cardinal says that the purpose of the group is to preserve the holy places, but at this time we cannot lose societies.

Believe in a better world

Among the consequences of tensions that avoid the Holy Land are the negative impact on the Hajj, whose main goal is to go to the places of Jesus to realize how deep and suggest that it is the idea that God descends to the earth for love. But today the pilgrimage also has the value added to the testimony, and solidarity appears with those who suffer a lot and suffer from injustice.

The case is amplified, in some way, by preparing Easter in the year Jubileo de la esperanza. The governor of the Eastern Churches regrets that many of the brothers of these churches cannot come to Rome for the Jubilee and are forced to war or poverty to live “at the time of prophecy” in their homeland.

“We are the Christians – we concluded the Cardinal – we believe in the prophecy of a better world, we will definitely get it, but also to make sure that we are on the duty to expect as much as possible, to overcome what we call sin, because all we see is sins: social sins as well.”