“In this time of deep unrest, the most fundamental human rights are tragically trampled on, in Ukraine as well as in many other regions of the world.” The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, writes this in a message sent to Pope Francis. “The war of aggression, the supreme negation of those essential bonds of brotherhood on which human coexistence is founded, continues in these weeks to sow unspeakable grief, to separate families, to violate the innocence of the smallest and most fragile”.
“The Easter spirit renews in the conscience the invitation to keep hope alive and a firm commitment to a peace founded on justice, while the message that Your Holiness tirelessly spreads in defense of the dignity of the person constitutes for all, believers and non-believers, a fruitful source of inspiration for commitment to and towards the other », writes the President of the Republic to Pope Francis.