Franco Pisano

Speaking at the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council, Vatican representative Ivan Jurkovič urged all states to "recognise, defend and promote" each person's basic human rights.

Published the document "On the journey towards care for our common home - Five years after Laudato si", prepared by the Holy See interdicasterial roundtable. It highlights the central statement of the Encyclical: everything is connected, there are no separate crises, but a single and complex socio-environmental crisis that requires a true ecological conversion.

"Everyone belongs to God. The worst sinners, the wickedest people, the most corrupt leaders, they are children of God, and Jesus feels this and intercedes for everyone ". “Moses does not barter his people. He is the bridge. Both of them, the people and God, and he is in the middle. What a beautiful example for all the shepherds who must be a 'bridge' between God and the people. " He does not sell out his people to advance his career."

According to an Indian army statement, both sides suffered losses. A Chinese government spokersperson reported that Indian troops violated Chinese territory, but did not say if China suffered casualties.

In his message for the Fourth World Day of the Poor, Francis writes that care for the poor “cannot be conditioned by the time available or by private interests, or by impersonal pastoral or social projects.” Goodness exists even though “Bad news fills the pages of newspapers, websites and television screens, to the point that evil seems to reign supreme.” Many hands have been stretched forth during the pandemic.

Francis's appeal in view of the World Day against child labor. In the moment of life in which we will feel truly alone, “in that moment God will give us a new name, which contains the meaning of our whole life, will change our heart, and give us the blessing reserved to those who let themselves be changed by Him. This is a nice invitation to allow ourselves to be changed by God, He knows how to do it, He knows us."

Indian and Chinese Military leaders met on Saturday to “peacefully resolve the situation in the border areas,” India’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. But for the Global Times, “the ongoing standoff is not likely to end immediately, as concrete issues must still be resolved."

"We learn from Abraham to pray with faith: listening, walking, dialoguing up to arguing, we must not be afraid to argue with God, it may seem like heresy. I have often heard it said, I got angry with God”. "But this is prayer." “We need to learn to dialogue with God like a son with a father. Abraham teaches us this”.

Francis issued a message on the fiftieth anniversary of the promulgation of the rite of Consecration of Virgins. “The pandemic is teaching us that ‘the time has come to eliminate inequalities, to heal the injustice that is undermining the health of the entire human family!’”

Scores of women and men recited the decades of the Rosary on behalf of various groups of people particularly affected by the virus.

Francis wrote to the priests of the Diocese of Rome. “Let us participate with Jesus in his passion, our passion, so as to also experience with him the power of the resurrection: certainty that God’s love can move feelings and go out into the intersections of road to share ‘glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord’ (cf. Lk 4:18-19), with the joy that everyone can actively participate with their dignity of the children of the living God.”

Since the anniversary of the encyclical, a special year to "encourage and promote concerted individual and community actions for the care of our common home" and to "promote good practices".