Franco Pisano

Francis said that pastors have the right to “offer opinions on all that affects people’s lives”. For him, “Christian conversion demands reviewing especially those areas and aspects of life ‘related to the social order and the pursuit of the common good’.”

Francis is in Antananarivo. Upon leaving, he thanked Mozambique.

The visit to the "Dream" center for people suffering from AIDS / HIV: "the poor need, the personal involvement of those who hear their cry". "You can't think about the future, build a nation, a society based on the " fairness "of violence. I cannot follow Jesus if the order I am promoting is this: "eye for eye, tooth for tooth". "

In meeting pastoral workers, Francis recommends to renew the "call" of Jesus. “In a crisis of priestly identity,” he said, “we need to step away from important and solemn places, and return to the places from which we were called, where it was clear that the initiative and the power was from God.”

The Basque cardinal was former president of the French Bishops' Conference and carried out an intense international activity that led him, among other things, to China and Vietnam.

The first appointments of Francis in Mozambique are with civil authorities and youth. "The world is destroyed by enmity. And the greatest enmity is war. Nowadays we see that the world is being destroyed by war. Because they are unable to sit and talk ”.

During the flight, Francis called on accompanying journalists to pray for the "brothers and sisters who are suffering as a result of these hurricanes in the Bahamas.”

"The practice of euthanasia, which has become legal already in several states, only apparently aims to encourage personal freedom; in reality it is based on a utilitarian view of the person, which becomes useless or can be equated to being an expense, if from the medical point of view they have no hope of improvement or can no longer avoid pain ".

This year marks 30 years since the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople established Indiktos, the start of ecclesiastical year, as the Day for the protection of our natural environment.

Francis message for today's World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Creation, a gift of God, has been shattered by blind exploitation. In the upcoming United Nations Summit for Climate Action, "Governments will have the task of showing the political will to drastically accelerate the measures to reach zero net greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible".

Francis sends a video message to the people of Mozambique, the first stage of the journey that from September 4 to 10 will also see him in Madagascar and Mauritius.

The meeting of the joint working group concluded at the Vatican. The Vietnamese delegation received by Pope Francis. In a joint statement released today, there is also talk of the establishment "as soon as possible" of the non-permanent papal representative in Vietnam.