Angelus of Sunday January 18, 2009

"I sincerely hope that the glimpses of openness to restore the ceasefire will be taken advantage of, with wisdom, in order to move towards peaceful and lasting solutions." With this, Benedict XVI has expressed yet another appeal to end the violence in the Gaza strip. "I renew my encouragement to those who believe that there is room for everyone in the Holy Land," - the Pope reiterated during the Sunday Angelus - "in order to help their people to rise up from the rubble and the terror and to courageously take up the thread of dialogue in justice and in truth ". During the Marian prayer, the Holy Father then spoke about the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, on the theme: "That they may become one in ...

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