On October 27, 1986, Saint John Paul II brought religious leaders from around the world to Assisi to pray for peace together for the first time in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Forty years later, Pope Leo XIV planned to mark the anniversary, but his doctors advised him to cancel the trip. The Holy See Press said the decision would \u201cfacilitate his recovery\u201d following his surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although Pope Leo could not attend in person, he sent a video message to the faithful gathered there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
POPE LEO XIV Reflecting on the words of John Paul II, the Pope reiterated the need to keep the spirit of Assisi alive amid today\u2019s global tensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n POPE LEO XIV Against the back drop, a global symbol of peace, the pope asked religious leaders to engage in dialogue, negotiation and mutual understanding. He stressed that violence is not the answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n POPE LEO XIV The Pope finished his message by reminding those gathered that prayer is never in vain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On October 27, 1986, Saint John Paul II brought religious leaders from around the world to Assisi to pray for peace together for the first time in history. Forty years later, Pope Leo XIV planned to mark the anniversary, but his doctors advised him to cancel the trip. The Holy See Press said the decision […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":95979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bassisivideomessaggioeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bassisivideomessaggioint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95987,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95982\/revisions\/95987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>I would very much like to have been with you at the tomb of Saint Francis on this important anniversary, to see your faces and bear witness together to the fact that living as brothers and sisters is already possible!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>After 1989, many believed that globalization would ensure lasting peace for the world. Unfortunately, as I wrote in Magnifica Humanitas, \u201can almost blind faith was placed in the ability of the markets to generate prosperity, democracy and stability. In reality, rather than automatically generating unity and peace, globalization has provoked fundamentalist, identity-based and nationalistic reactions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>War can never be waged in the name of God. For us believers, \u201cto fight in the name of religion means attacking religion itself.\u201d There is no such thing as a holy war: only peace is holy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n