Par Pierre Cibambo, International Liaison Officer pour l’Afrique chez Caritas Internationalis
La Conférence de l’Episcopat Catholique de La Région des Grands Lacs pour la Paix et la Réconciliation a ouvert ses travaux ce mardi 19 octobre dans la capitale burundaise Bujumbura. Pierre Nkurunziza, le Président de la République du Burundi, a ouvert les travaux en souhaitant la bienvenue aux différentes délégations et en reconnaissant l’important travail de l’Eglise de la Région dans le domaine de l’action humanitaire, le développement et l’édification de la paix et la réconciliation. Continue reading
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Réaffirmer l’engagement de l’Eglise de la Région des Grands Lacs
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Troubled horizons in the Middle East
The period running up to parliamentary elections in Iraq in March will be critical for the long term security of a country beset by violence.
Caritas fears that extremists will use the elections to carry out acts of violence and that the poor will suffer the most.
Mosul, Kirkuk, and Dora in Baghdad will be hot spots according to Caritas, which is carrying out assessments of vulnerable communities in those areas to be able to plan for displacements of people and urgent needs of those caught in conflicts.
Iraq Catholic Hierarchy
Last November, the Reunion of Aid Agencies for the Oriental Church (ROACO) held a meeting in Erbil, Northern Iraq, bringing together Iraqi bishops, the Nuncio, Iraqi church partners, and the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches, Oeuvre d’Orient, MISSIO, Misereor, Aid to the Church in Need, I.C.O. (Austria), D.K.A. Austria (Kath. Jungschau Osterreichs), Archbishopric of Cologne, and Caritas Germany, Caritas Iraq and Caritas Middle East and North Africa (MONA).
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Peace in the Holy Land
Prayer for peace in the Holy Land
By Joespeh Cornelius Donnelly, Head of Caritas Internationalis Delegation, UN in New York,
Lord, Jesus Christ,
Son of the Living God,
we come to in the sacredness of life,
conscious of the gift of every human being,
created in your image and likeness.
We come before you this November time
when the global community notes again
its solemn commemoration and concerns for
the inalienable rights of Palestinian People.
We pray for all your people,
for Jews, Christians and Muslims,
for Israelis, Palestinians, Arabs,
whose lives are inextricably linked everyday
in the Holy Land they must share.
You are the loving author of life.
All rights are God-given, from you to us.
We pray for our sisters and brothers,
longsuffering in Jerusalem, the West Bank,
and in Gaza where they are cut off from us.
We pray for the innocent victims of violence.
We pray that all extreme actions will cease.
We pray for new measures of courageous leadership.
With friends, partners and all believers in The Land,
and across the fragile earth we share, we pray too
that our coming together will multiply good will
for genuine opportunities to build peace together.
We pray for a peace as real as the ancient olive trees
so that a beautiful landscape will be fruitful once more.
We pray that the will for such a peace grows daily
so that in all hearts we unite rather than divide,
so that we can be sheltering trees in good times and bad.
Indeed, Lord,
we pray to walk humbly together,
to love justice as the greatest witness in gratitude to you
for the precious gift of life we treasure -
in the Holy Land and everywhere in the beauty of peace.
Amen.
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