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He Pope Leo XIV He stated this Thursday that they need “more people who favor dialogue and practice it with firm will and patient tenacity” in the face of the drift of conflicts around the world, during a speech in Türkiye in the presence of the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoganat the initial stop of his first trip abroad.
“After the era of construction of the great international organizations that followed the tragedies of the two world wars, we are going through a phase of strong conflicts at a global levelin which strategies of economic and military power prevail, fueling what Pope Francis called ‘the third world war in pieces’,” the pontiff warned.
And he added, before the authorities and diplomatic corps at the National Library of the Presidential Palace, in Ankara: “We must not give in in any way to this drift!”
The Pope was received by Turkish President Erdogan.
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“The future of humanity is at stake. Because the energies and resources absorbed by this destructive dynamic are removed from the true challenges that the human family should face together, that is, peace, the fight against hunger and misery, health, education and the safeguarding of creation,” he indicated.
The pope offered the work of the Holy See that, “with its only force, which is spiritual and moral, desires cooperate with all nations who care about the integral development of each man and of all men and women.
The stop in Ankara marks the first leg of the pontiff’s first international trip, fulfilling the late Francis’ plans to commemorate the 1700 years of the first ecumenical council in the history of Christianitysummoned by the Emperor Constantine I in Nicaea, currently the city of Iznik. It is also expected that in his interventions he will insist on the call for peace at a key moment to end the war in Ukraine and after the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Christians in Türkiye
“Our world has centuries of conflict behind it and around us it continues to be destabilized by ambitions and decisions that trample on justice and peace“added Leo XIV.
The Pope also stated that Turkey is “at a crossroads of sensitivities” and warned that “its homogenization would represent impoverishment. In fact, a society is alive if it is plural: it is the bridges between its different souls that make it a civil society.”
Likewise, he pointed out that Christians “are and feel part of the Turkish identity” and, although “it seems logical that each one should take care of himself, his family and national tradition, remaining within the limited circle of his own community” this “in the light of the Gospel and Catholic principle, is false logic.”
Another moment of the meeting between Leo XIV and Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Therefore, “in a society like Turkey, where religion has a visible role [la mayoría del país profesa el islam]it is essential to honor the dignity and freedom of all of God’s children: men and women, compatriots and foreigners, poor and rich. We are all children of God and this has personal, social and political consequences.” “Whoever has a heart docile to the will of God will always promote the common good and respect for all“he added.
For years, even with the mediation of American presidents such as Barak Obama or Donald Trump, there have been calls for the reopening of the Halki Theological School, a Greek Orthodox religious seminary closed since 1971.
Located on the island of Heybeliada, this seminary has trained Greek Orthodox patriarchs and clerics, including the Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew, spiritual leader of some 300 million Orthodox Christians around the world and now it is hoped that the arrival of the pope will serve to reopen it.
Leo XIV also asked to “work together” so that technological evolution avoids accentuating injustices. “In fact, even artificial intelligences reproduce our preferences and accelerate processes that, in the end, are not machines, but humanity that has undertaken them.”