The Pope Video – January 2022/ El video del Papa - Archived

by Stephanie Sanchez
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We pray for all those suffering from religious discrimination and persecution; may their own rights and dignity be recognized, which originate from being brothers and sisters in the human family.

Pope Francis – January 2022

How is it possible that many religious minorities currently suffer discrimination or persecution?
How can we allow that in this society, which is so civilized, there are people who are persecuted simply because they publicly profess their faith? Not only is it unacceptable; it’s inhuman, it’s insane.
Religious freedom is not limited to freedom of worship—that is to say, that people can have a worship service on the day prescribed by their sacred books. Rather, it makes us appreciate others in their differences and recognize them as true brothers and sisters.
As human beings, we have so many things in common that we can live alongside each other, welcoming our differences with the joy of being brothers and sisters.
And may a small difference, or a substantial difference such as a religious one, not obscure the great unity of being brothers and sisters.
Let us choose the path of fraternity. Because either we are brothers and sisters, or we all lose.
Let us pray that those who suffer discrimination and suffer religious persecution, may find in the societies in which they live the rights and dignity that comes from being brothers and sisters.

Recemos para que todas las personas que sufren discriminación y persecución religiosa encuentren en las sociedades en las que viven el reconocimiento de sus derechos y la dignidad que proviene de ser hermanos y hermanas.

Papa Francisco – Enero 2022

¿Cómo puede ser que actualmente muchas minorías religiosas sufran discriminaciones o persecuciones?
¿Cómo permitimos en esta sociedad tan civilizada que haya personas que sean perseguidas simplemente por profesar públicamente su fe? No solo es inaceptable, es inhumano, es una locura.
La libertad religiosa no se limita a la libertad de culto, es decir a que puedan tener un culto el día prescrito por sus libros sagrados, sino que nos hace valorar al otro en su diferencia y reconocer en él a un verdadero hermano.
Como seres humanos tenemos tantas cosas en común que podamos convivir acogiendo las diferencias con la alegría de ser hermanos.
Y que una pequeña diferencia, o una sustancial diferencia como es la religiosa, no opaque la gran unidad de ser hermanos.
Elijamos el camino de la fraternidad. Porque o somos hermanos, o perdemos todos.
Recemos para que las personas que sufren discriminación y que sufren persecución religiosa encuentren en las sociedades en las que viven el reconocimiento y la dignidad que proviene de ser hermanos y hermanas.