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Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders condemn actions that “fundamentally contradict the inalienable value of human life”. Hence, they are “consequentially morally and religiously wrong, and should be forbidden without exceptions.”

In the final document there are good emphases on conversion to Christ, a commitment to the youth of Amazonia, the Church as a companion of Indian culture, capable of inculturating the Gospel. Local Churches across America must contribute personnel and financial resources to the "Amazon mission". The delicate themes of married priests and the female diaconate left to the Pope or, even better, to a universal synod.

The ceremony took place in Prarthanalaya, a place of worship for the congregation. The chapel was filled with traditional lamps used for the festival of lights. Blessed James Alberione: "Piety is above all Eucharistic. Everything flows from the Master in the Eucharist, as from a spring that gives life ".

​At the Angelus, Pope Francis asks all Lebanese, "especially the young", to seek "the right solutions in dialogue" and "for the benefit of the whole Middle Eastern region that suffers so greatly". In the month of October pray the Rosary for the missionaries and for peace. The just concluded Synod was "a journey together ... to live of Jesus, to live of the Gospel" and "to go out of oneself".

At the concluding Mass for the Amazon Synod, Pope Francis traces the three possible styles of prayer: the Pharisee, the tax collector, the poor man. In addition to the synod fathers, representatives of the Amazon Indian communities were present, with their faces painted in celebration, headdresses of multicolored feathers, elaborate necklaces. There are people who call themselves "Catholics", but in reality they are followers of the "religion of the I", who have forgotten they are "Christian and human". "We are a bit tax collector... and a bit Pharisee”.

Francis intervention at the conclusion of the synodal assembly. "The post-synodal exhortation is not mandatory". "An Amazon section in the Dicastery for Integral Human Development". The Synod must be seen in its four dimensions: cultural, ecological, social and pastoral.

The sector employs thousands of workers and invoices $ 800 million. The city of Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu is the center of over 1,000 companies, which this year remained without commissions. India is among the most polluted countries in the world. Authorities try to reduce the deaths caused by air toxicity.

For Sister Inés Azucena Zambrano Jara, the female deaconate "would reconfirm our identity". Interviewed by Vatican news, Card Stella stressed the value of celibacy, "a gift which the Lord brings with the calling to the priesthood”. In Africa, the missionaries “bet on human nature and God's grace. Today we have an African clergy that lives celibately”.

The issues of the viri probati and female deaconate took up too much work to the detriment of many other topics like human ecology and comprehensive evangelisation. Pope Francis' speeches were positive, calling for a "superabundance" in mission and faith. Little was said about youth. A Synodal Father gives his take on a month of work at the Synod for the Amazon.

The bishop of Parintins (Brazil) underlines some fruits of this Synod. The presence of Pope Francis. Saving and safeguarding nature in the Amazon under the guidance of the indigenous peoples, who are its custodians. Evangelization is not colonization, but love for cultures to understand how to offer the newness of the Cross and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

“Before the day is over, take two or three minutes [to ask yourself] what important thing happened inside me today? If I had a little hate here and talked behind someone’s back there. Did I do something charitable? . . . Who helped you do these things, both bad and good?” Let us “ask ourselves these questions to know what happens inside us.”

The "Ghar wapsi" campaign was carried out by the local cell of the Hindu nationalist party in government. About 500 Christians convinced to take an oath to the Hindu religion and to promise not to go to church anymore.