Pope, Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas Invoke Peace in Vatican

The appointment is at the end of the afternoon in the Vatican gardens. The Pope Francisco  host the Israeli and Palestinian presidents, Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas, to invoke peace together in the Middle East. There is an interfaith prayer meeting, much less a political act. The invitation, which occurred during the recent visit of Jorge Mario Bergoglio to the Holy Land, just pretend ” pause politics to rise and publicly display the common desire to make it happen, that reopening roads that have been closed, to re dream of peace, “said the Franciscan Pizzaballa, one of the organizers.

Pizzaballa, custodian of the Holy Land, discard beforehand that no one can be frustrated if, after the ceremony in the Vatican, no significant signs of Israeli or Palestinian governments occur. “Nobody thinks ” he explained, ” that the day may burst peace. It’s not even pray together, but being together to pray. ”

It is expected that the two presidents arrive separately to the Vatican from 1815. The pope Francisco receive and hold a brief conversation with each and then, from the entrance of the residence of Santa Marta, will depart together to the place of celebration, which also participate the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The ceremony will be held in three acts, the first devoted to the Jewish community, the second and the third Christian to Muslim. All follow the same rhythm of text and music: prayer of thanks, asking forgiveness for sins committed and finally invocation to peace. Then Jorge Mario Bergoglio be speaking and encourage your guests, President Peres and President Abbas to do the same. The program broadcast on Friday, the custodian of the Holy Land and the Holy See’s spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, provides that the act closes with a ” gesture of peace ” and ” planting an olive tree.”

In the end, and off camera, the Pope and the two presidents keep a private meeting at the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences, after which Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas leave the Vatican separately.

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