The Serenissima Grand Lodge of the Republic of San Marino: “Stop war and violence immediately”
The Serenissima Grand Lodge of the Republic of San Marino, the only San Marino Regular Freemasonry, calls for an immediate stop to the war and violence in Ukraine where, in a fratricidal struggle, unequal armies are opposed and an unimaginable number of innocent civilians are losing everything.
Like all citizens of the Republic and of the world we live days of great dismay where violence has taken the place of dialogue and freedom. Freedom and equality are the founding principles of Freemasonry, the ideas that were the basis of the French Revolution, of the Italian Risorgimento and that have been sealed in the respective Constitutions and in the Charter of Rights of San Marino.
Freemasons all over the world have always been builders of cathedrals, which allegorically means the union of many people with different ideals, culture and social class; a union that in mutual respect leads to the construction of great works. Freemasons build bridges to unite people and not walls to divide them. Freemasons enjoy dialogue and mutual respect and abhor all forms of violence and absolutism.
Observing in amazement the disappearance of so many, many lives and the flight from their homeland of innocent people fills our hearts with sadness and we hope that reason and humanity will take over.
“It is a difficult moment”, says in the Grand Master dr. Emidio Troiani, “on behalf of the Serenissima Grand Lodge of the Republic of San Marino I ask for the immediate end of this fratricidal war” and “I hope that maximum help will be given to refugees and innocent civilians, only dialogue and tolerance can ensure that we return to a civil coexistence “.