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<br></div><div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-GB">Meeting for
friendship among peoples 2013</span></b></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;" lang="EN-GB">APPEAL FOR
PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></b></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:right;" align="right"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black;" lang="EN-GB">«</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB">Finally a thought
for Christians who, in various parts of the world, have difficulty in openly
professing their faith and in being recognized and given the right to live with
dignity. They are our brothers and sisters, courageous witnesses - even more
numerous than our martyrs in the early centuries - who endure with apostolic
perseverance the many current forms of persecution. Quite a few also risk their
lives to remain faithful to the Gospel of Christ. I wish to assure my closeness
in prayer to individuals, families and communities who suffer violence and
intolerance and I repeat to them the consoling words of Jesus: "Take
courage, I have overcome the world" (</span></i><i><span class="yui_3_7_2_98_1377433816579_121" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-style:normal;" lang="EN-GB">Jn
</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB">16:33).</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:yellow;" lang="EN-GB"></span></i></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:right;" align="right"><b><i><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:yellow;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></i></b></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:right;" align="right"><b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black;" lang="EN-GB">From Pope Francis’
World Mission Day 2013 Message</span></i></b><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black;" lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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<div class="yiv0018731306"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.45pt;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">It is painful to see that,
even today, in many regions of the world, <b>it is not possible to freely practise
and express one’s religion without risking one’s own personal freedom and even
one’s life. </b>In this dramatic
context, Christians are currently those who suffer most because of their
faith. <b>Every year in the world, over 100 thousand Christians are killed</b>
and many others are forced to undergo every sort of violence: rape, torture,
kidnapping and the destruction of places of worship, but more silent and
sophisticated forms of <b>prejudice and opposition exist to believers and their
religious symbols</b>. </span></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.45pt;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.45pt;"><span class="yiv0018731306"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">Christians are threatened, physically
attacked and killed in many countries. Christians are also at the centre of
discrimination, in many different ways, including in those countries where
nihilism dominates and exercises cultural hegemony which is unable to accept
those who, in a climate of authentic pluralism, wish to make reference to an
ideal, a religion or a faith. </span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.45pt;"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-indent:35.45pt;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">This is a dramatic reality about which little is said,
which is concealed or deliberately erased as regards its true dimensions,
except in some extreme cases of violence which must necessarily be reported,
but which <b>cannot be ignored because,
besides offending human dignity, it represents a threat to security and peace </b>and
prevents achieving authentic and integral human development.</span></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.45pt;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.45pt;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">The evangelical message is
in itself a dispute against all conformity inflexible to all power. Consequently,
the existence of Christians is in itself an antidote to the intrusiveness of
power. <b>A civil institution which
respects the freedom of such a reality is therefore in itself tolerant towards
every other authentic form of human association</b>. The recognition of the
role, including the public role of the faith and of the contribution it can
give to the progress of human beings is therefore a guarantee of freedom for
everyone, not only for Christians. For this reason, <b>defending the right to exist of Christians means defending the free
life of everyone. </b></span></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.45pt;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.45pt;"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">The capacity to meet others
inasmuch as human beings,</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">
to cherish and recognize in the faith and thought of our neighbour a sincere
attempt to answer the demand for meaning in each and every one of us, <b>is an
essential aspect of Christian presence in history</b>. </span></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.45pt;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.45pt;"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">The Rimini Meeting has tried
to contribute to friendship among peoples</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">, and its 34 years of history are the documentary
evidence, as unexpected as it is desired, of the precise <b>desire of the heart
– desire for truth, for beauty, for justice and for happiness – to make friends
of men and women of different faiths and cultures, ethnic or ideological
origins, thus becoming a source of authentic respect and therefore of peace.</b></span></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.45pt;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.45pt;"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">For this reason, from the
Rimini Meeting 2013 – in answer to the cry of Pope Francis – we launch an
appeal which all people of good will are asked to endorse:</span></b></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.45pt;"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.45pt;"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></div>
<div class="yiv0018731306" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;" lang="EN-GB">We ask</span></b><span style="font-size:18pt;" lang="EN-GB"> national institutions and international
organizations, according to the rules of international law, to do all possible
to defend, look after, protect and guarantee the existence of Christians the
world over.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size:18pt;" lang="EN-GB">We ask</span></b><span style="font-size:18pt;" lang="EN-GB"> that Christians be
acknowledged the elementary right to seek and testify to the truth, preventing
all restrictions of their freedom to express themselves and convene</span><br></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div><p></p>
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