Giavera, delegation of “Rhythms and dances from the world” received by the Pope

They opened the “sheet” made with flags in the Vatican. The Holy Father lashes out against torture and trafficking in human beings

GIAVERA. A delegation of “Rhythms and Dances from the World” was received on Saturday 27 November 2021, in the Vatican from Pope francesco. It was a “re-invitation”: in fact the Holy Father had already invited the organization chaired by Fr Bruno Baratto on 7 December 2020, but then the worsening of the pandemic had led to the cancellation of the appointment. “It is a certificate of esteem for the multicolored community of Festival volunteers, which for 26 years has been building encounters between people of different cultures”, comment the promoters of the event born on the slopes of Montello, in the context of the shelter for migrants.

The group brought the now classic flag-sheet as a symbol of peace and integration.

The Holy Father spoke again of the “torture that migrants suffer when traffickers take them: this is happening today, we cannot close our eyes”. He said this to the Giavera delegation, reiterating the importance of respecting “the dignity of people”.

Great emotion on the part of the delegation.

Passion, participation, sharing, are the “handmade values” – as they call them in Giavera – that have built the identity of the organization also committed to supporting micro solidarity projects and whose summer festival in Giavera they wanted to participate personality like the Nobel Prize for peace Shirine Ebadi and then minister Cecile Kyenge. In recent years the festival has also organized “trips” in Italy and around the world to learn about various hospitality experiences such as that of the former mayor of Riace Domenico Lucano, recently condemned by justice not without controversy.

In this context, some volunteers from the Festival recently went to the south of Tunisia to meet some associations of the territory such as the fishermen of the city of Zarzis, who in that period saved some migrants shipwrecked along their coasts.