In the world it seems as if a resigned adaptation to war and conflict is growing.
The scandal over the many victims in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia for two years is silenced by the conformism that declares that it is the only viable solution to resolve controversies between men, between peoples.
The war that is bleeding Ukraine is a clear example in this sense;
World public opinion is increasingly indifferent, locked in its own interests, it does not understand that the war in Ukraine is not simply a European war but the plastic example of a global conflict, whose consequences and consequences go beyond European confines.
Proof of this is the lack of wheat, of which Ukraine is one of the world's largest producers, and which affects the already lacking diet of many African countries.
Then it is necessary to recognize that it is a fratricidal war, fought between two Christian peoples;
precisely in kyiv, the East Jerusalem, Russian Christianity was born, Orthodox monasticism began there.
These wounds between the two peoples are a serious blow to the ecumenical path that has developed in recent decades, since the Second Vatican Council.
The Russian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church live a time of mutual excommunications and in some way consider war as an act of religious purification.
The numbers of this conflict are impressive;
thousands and thousands of Ukrainian and Russian soldiers dead, mutilated.
Thousands of civilians, women, children and the elderly died in the incessant bombings.
Much of the country's economy is destroyed, hospitals seriously damaged, so many sick people in need of treatment and left to their fate.
War industries working at full speed;
Ukraine itself wants to establish a war industry on its own territory.
Europe, in recent months, has decreased humanitarian aid but continues to provide weapons for the Ukrainian resistance.
There are few voices raised against the war;
one of the few is that of Pope Francis, who in recent months has sent Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, archbishop of Bologna and president of the Italian bishops, to open “channels of peace” by traveling to Kiev and Moscow and then to Washington and Beijing .
Open humanitarian channels for the rescue of Ukrainian children, kidnapped by the Russians.
It is imperative, urgent, to create a climate of dialogue and encounter that can bring positions closer together.
Along with the negotiations, which we hope can be promoted in the face of indecision and the geopolitical calculations of the powerful, it is necessary to multiply marches for peace, build a culture of peace among the new generations, create interest and curiosity about what is happening in the world. world.
In our global village we must listen to the cries of pain that come out of this bloody Ukraine and work on the consciences of many so that this war is not “eternal” but rather that peace is the only humane and viable path for a dignified coexistence. .