Genoa, over 2 thousand people despite the rain at the March for Peace – Primocanale.it
GENOA – Over two thousand people despite the rain took part in the Peace March of the Community of Sant’Egidio in Genoa.
From Piazza dell’Annunziata it wound up to Piazza San Lorenzo for the 65th celebration of the World Day of Peace. The march was attended by children and many young people who opened the procession behind the banner ‘peace is the future’, many immigrants from many countries, Christians, Muslims, lay people.
To allow the presence of the older ones at the head of the march there was also a small train. In his hands are signs with the names of the countries at war – about 23 high-intensity conflicts and many more situations of conflict in various regions of the world – or the words “peace” in many languages. The demonstration began in the basilica of the Ss. Annunziata del Vastato (while, in the premises of the convent, hundreds of children and adolescents listened to the voices of the elderly witnesses of the war in Europe): various voices commented on the message of Pope Francis for the of peace.
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Andrea Chiappori, the head of the Community of Sant’Egidio in Genoa recalled Pope Benedict XVI, missed yesterday, “who has greatly contributed to interreligious dialogue and to the work for peace”. In the world – Chiappori said – billions of people live in war, for this reason Pope Francis invites us to have a careful look at reality in order to understand history”.
Archbishop Marco Tasca noted how “injustice and aggressiveness are also increasing in our societies” and stated that “there is a need for each of us to commit ourselves to transforming ourselves into a woman and man of peace. There is an inner problem: we must learn to agree and change hearts.”
Ekaterina Slobdniuk, one of the Ukrainian women welcomed in Genoa by Sant’Egidio with her three children, he recounted his escape from his country in February, his reception in Austria and then in Italy. Among the testimonies, also that of Emanuele Morasso, a seminarian engaged in welcoming the Ukrainians welcomed in Genoa and in the after-school care for refugee children.