"Take heed all of you who have at heart mankind's future!Take heed men and women of good will!
May the temptation to seek revenge give way to the courage to forgive; may the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death; may trust once more give breath to the lives of peoples." ...
Pope John Paul II
"As we celebrate the feast of the glorious Resurrection of Our Lord, we turn our eyes to the Holy places and to the people who live around them. We see with deep sadness a situation of death not of life, a situation in which one does not know what to do as he goes searching for life in the darkness of death, oppression, and bloodshed.
"We live days in which reason darkened; we are abandoned to 'human madness' that sees solutions only in bloodshed and in crushing the human being. Therefore towns and villages are aggressed, occupied and reoccupied; many are killed while others are taken prisoners. At the same time siege and oppression on towns and villages are still going on. ...
"We live days in which reason darkened; we are abandoned to 'human madness' that sees solutions only in bloodshed and in crushing the human being. Therefore towns and villages are aggressed, occupied and reoccupied; many are killed while others are taken prisoners. At the same time siege and oppression on towns and villages are still going on. ...
"It is high time for the leaders to come back to reason and to reconsider what they have done in order to avoid for themselves and for their people the sin of more bloodshed, and the permanence of insecurity. Let them enter the true path of security which consists in peaceful hearts and friendly relations" ...
Michel Sabbah, Latin Patriarch, Jerusalem
Please click the photo of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, from whence it is believed that the Ressurection took place and then continue for more of the Easter messages.
Michel Sabbah, Latin Patriarch, Jerusalem
Please click the photo of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, from whence it is believed that the Ressurection took place and then continue for more of the Easter messages.