Bahrain, the Pope meets young people: "Make noise! ​​We need your pinch of madness"

Weave networks of dialogue with everyone to end conflicts in the world, starting with the one that bleeds the heart of Europe.

With this goal ,

, even in

where he is visiting until tomorrow, has sought "allies" to put out the fire that is burning in Ukraine.

After the Muslim world, today it is the turn of the young, the children, to whom the Pontiff has asked not to "endorse" wars and conflicts, to "react" to this world that risks getting lost;

to become, finally, "champions of fraternity." Francis thus spoke to about eight hundred young people, Christians and Muslims, gathered in the school of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic institute run by five nuns where children of different faiths and languages ​​study, from twenty-nine different nationality and a new crowd afterwards

: over 30,000 people, also from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar.

Since many of the institute's guests are immigrants, mass was celebrated today because they cannot leave work on Sundays.

The local offices count 111 nationalities present and the celebration becomes multilingual, ranging from English to Konkani, from Spanish to Tamil, from Tagalog to Arabic, from Malayalam to Swahili.

A mosaic of faces and stories of this “little flock”, the Catholics, who today live a moment in history with the

.

God "sees and suffers seeing in our day, in many parts of the world, exercises of power that feed on oppression and violence, which seek to increase their own space by restricting that of others, imposing their own dominion and limiting fundamental freedoms, oppressing the weak ”, the Pope said. Then he borrowed the words of the Gospel and asked to“ love one's enemies ”.

We must therefore “take risks in something that seems to be a loser” because “the simple human reaction nails us an

.

But this means getting justice with the same weapons as the evil received ”.

Instead, it is necessary to "

fraternity

concretely and courageously , breaking

spiral of revenge, disarming violence, demilitarizing the heart." Words that cannot help but make us think of the difficulty of the moment and the need, loudly demanded by many, to open negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, as well as in all other lands plagued by conflicts.

It is therefore necessary to “love in this way, in a way that seems superhuman to us”, Francis repeats.

From the mass to the meeting with young people, the same guiding thread of the

follows .

And for this "

", Invites the Pope, because the world and the Church itself need "your courage, your sympathy and your smiles, your contagious joy and even that

that you know how to bring .

in every situation, and which helps to get out of the torpor of habits and repetitive patterns in which we sometimes pigeonhole life ”, concluded Bergoglio.

Tomorrow last day of visit to the small Arab kingdom.

The Pope will close this journey with a meeting with bishops, priests, men and women religious and pastoral workers.

There will first be a prayer and the recitation of the Angelus with consecrated persons and seminarians in Manama.

The return to Rome is scheduled for 5 pm. The usual press conference will be held on the return flight.