Naples
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21 April 2025
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

President Michele Capasso, Director Pia Balducci Molinari, the Board of Directors, the representatives of the branch offices and the International Scientific Committee express their deepest condolences for the ascension to Heaven of Pope Francis.
In a message sent to Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, President Capasso, among other things, writes:
"Our heart is broken by the news of the ascension to Heaven of our beloved Pope Francis: we wish to express through him our deepest condolences for the passing of the Pope of All Peoples, but at the same time our happiness for having had him as the leader of the universal Church. Personally, I have had the joy of meeting him on several occasions and of sharing with him significant moments of his life and his Pontificate: from the trip to Jakarta last year to our first meeting in Luján in 2008, from his first trip to Lampedusa in July 2013 to the recent trips to Asia and Oceania and the subsequent ones in Luxembourg and Belgium, from the meeting in the Vatican with Shimon Peres, Abu Mazen and Bartholomew I in 2014 to the one in Venice a year ago; unforgettable were our meetings in Manila and Abu Dhabi and others.
In these times we are living in the world an immense famine of Love and sense of the Common Good: a suicidal selfishness - understood as the pure pursuit of personal and corporate interests - has invaded every area of political, institutional and social life, contaminating the whole of humanity. The voice of Pope Francis, although solitary on several occasions, was the only one to fuel the feeling that was closest to his heart: "HOPE". Yesterday in Rome we were in St. Peter's Square for Holy Easter: when we saw and heard the Pope's faint voice, a strong hope overwhelmed us and we would never have imagined what would happen a few hours later. Ideally we gathered around the Pope and we would have liked to offer him the first draft of the program of an event dear to him that we announced to him in the last meeting on October 16, 2024: the creation in Naples of a Shrine dedicated to the innocent victims of wars in the world, SO AS NOT TO FORGET.
The ceremony of deposition of the relics of innocent victims of wars in the Totem of Peace - symbol of the United States of the World - will take place on June 7, 2025, with the celebration of the Eucharist that we will dedicate to Pope Francis”.
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