Vatican City (Vatican), 10 Mar. (LaPresse) – ‘We follow with anxious attention what is happening in Ukraine, subjected to bombings and systematic attacks. Every day the sirens break the nights that we would like to be peaceful for everyone, especially for the children and the sick, among whom are many wounded and maimed. We look with attention and hope at the possible dialogue between Ukraine and Russia, while we hope that this may mark a new season for all those countries – including the United States, Europe and China – that are involved in various ways in the search for peace. Finally, steps are being taken for peace. This needs dialogue, as Pope Francis has always asked with moving insistence'. So said the president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, introducing the work of the Permanent Episcopal Council that begins today in Rome. ‘Dialogue between governments has been despised too much,’ Zuppi added, ‘while the international forums for meetings have been emptied of meaning and prestige, starting with the UN. The word is decisive. The language, the international language and the language of communication, has become very harsh, aggressive, aiming at striking or discrediting rather than creating the basis for dialogue. Words like weapons and words without or with little truth'. Zuppi then points out that it is necessary to ‘overcome the babelisation of languages, the result of national, personal and group egocentrism’ because this has undermined dialogue.
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