Meeting at the UN between the Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Franco Vaccari, founder of Rondine and Father Enzo Fortunato.
during which I handed the Secretary General some photographs that I collected on my recent trip to Ukraine, followed by Huffington Post, where I saw the atrocity and pain that are taking place in that land: not even the mass graves and the blackened rubble from the bombs they manage to make the abyss of inhuman madness into which we are slipping, for this reason it is urgent to find the roads that lead to peace.
Cardinal Bassetti told the UN Secretary General that "the world looks carefully at his work" and encouraged him to move forward, to ensure that negotiations and the word take the place of arms.
not even the mass graves and the rubble blackened by the bombs are able to make the abyss of inhuman madness into which we are slipping, for this reason it is urgent to find the roads that lead to peace.
Cardinal Bassetti told the UN Secretary General that "the world looks carefully at his work" and encouraged him to move forward, to ensure that negotiations and the word take the place of arms.
not even the mass graves and the rubble blackened by the bombs are able to make the abyss of inhuman madness into which we are slipping, for this reason it is urgent to find the roads that lead to peace.
Cardinal Bassetti told the UN Secretary General that "the world looks carefully at his work" and encouraged him to move forward, to ensure that negotiations and the word take the place of arms.
In December 2021 the Franciscan Friars of the Sacred Convent of Assisi awarded Guterres with the Lamp of Peace and it was exciting to see him and Cardinal Bassetti rekindle it together at the beginning of the meeting at the Glass Palace: a symbolic moment to renew the Franciscan spirit, that in this very difficult historical period can help to find that sense of fraternity which perhaps today appears only a dream, but which represents the only way that mankind has to avoid being destroyed.
Secretary General Guterres also expressed strong appreciation for the work of Pope Francis and asked Cardinal Bassetti to convey to the Pope his greetings and the support of the United Nations for the tireless work of this period.