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15 September 2019 "What we are experiencing is a serious moment for the world. We must all hold ourselves together to shout that peace is without borders, without borders". With these words Pope Francis expressed himself in the message sent to Cardinal Carlos Osoro Sierra, archbishop of Madrid, and to the participants in the XXXIII International Meeting of Prayer for Peace in the Spirit of Assisi that is taking place in Madrid, from today until Tuesday 17 September, on the theme "Peace without borders".Thirty years ago the Berlin Wall fell and thus ended a "lacerating division of the continent that caused so much suffering". Today, in the first two decades of the 21st century, new wars, new walls and new barriers squander that "gift of God which is peace". Today the feeling of hatred increases more and more and so "we are wasting that gift that God has given us: peace" explains Pope Francis, who needs "feelings of fraternity, encounter and negotiation that must start from the heart".
Barriers and walls are a "senseless thing that separates and contrasts peoples" for Pope Francis. A world that therefore needs more and more open doors "to help communicate, to meet, to cooperate to live together in peace, respecting diversity and tightening responsibilities" continues Bergoglio sending messages to all those who find themselves in Spain to speak of the "Peace without borders".
With this in mind, last February Pope Francis signed in Abu Dhabi, together with the Great Imam of Al-Azhar (Ahmad al-Tayyib), "a document on human brotherhood for world peace and common coexistence".