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09 August 2020 "These days my thoughts often return to Lebanon. The catastrophe of last Tuesday calls everyone to collaborate for the common good of Lebanon, a country that has a peculiar identity resulting from the encounter between various cultures. A model of living together" .The appeal
With these words Pope Francis addresses the people in St. Peter's Square during the Angelus. "Of course - he immediately added - coexistence is very fragile now, but I pray that with the help of God and the collaboration of all it can be reborn". So Francis wanted to make a particular appeal to Lebanese priests and bishops. "The Church of Lebanon - he said - should always be close to its people with hearts and hands open to sharing. I also appeal for generous help from the international community." I ask the religious and priests, instead, that they are close to the people without luxury because your people suffer and suffer so much ”
No more atomic weapons
In the Angelus, Francis recalls the tragedy of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945. 75 years have passed. "I remember - said the Pope - with emotion and gratitude the visit" made in those places last year and "I renew the invitation to pray and to commit ourselves to a world totally free from nuclear weapons"
The church as a boat in the storm
The Church it is always like a "boat at the mercy of the storm", "in every age it encounters headwinds, sometimes very hard trials". The Pope said: "Let us think of certain long and bitter persecutions of the last century and even today in some parts. In those situations, - Francis recalls - one may be tempted to think that God has abandoned her. But in reality it is precisely in those moments the witness of faith "," of love "and" of hope "shines the most.