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\n Pope Francis greets pilgrims at his Wednesday general audience on Aug. 7, 2024. \/ Credit: Vatican Media<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 8, 2024 \/ 15:46 pm (CNA).<\/p>\n
The Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development has announced the theme chosen by Pope Francis for the 58th World Day of Peace 2025, which will be celebrated on Jan. 1: \u201cForgive Us Our Trespasses, Grant Us Your Peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
The theme, the dicastery explained,\u00a0\u201cmanifests a natural consonance with the biblical and ecclesial meaning of the jubilee year and is inspired in particular by the encyclical letters Laudato Si\u2019<\/em> und Fratelli Tutti<\/em>, especially around the concepts of hope and forgiveness, the heart of the jubilee\u201d called by Pope Francis for the year 2025.<\/p>\n According to the Vatican office, the theme represents \u201ca call to conversion, not oriented toward condemnation but toward reconciling and being reconciled.\u201d<\/p>\n The dicastery noted that by \u201cconsidering the reality of conflicts and social sins afflicting humanity today in light of the hope inherent in the jubilee tradition of the forgiveness of sins \u2026 concrete principles emerge that can lead to a much-needed spiritual, social, economic, ecological, and cultural change.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOnly through a true conversion, personal, communal, and international, can true peace flourish, which is not manifested only in the end of conflicts but in a new reality in which wounds are healed and the dignity of each person is recognized,\u201d the dicastery stated.<\/p>\n In previous years, the themes proposed by Pope Francis for this day have focused on artificial intelligence, dialogue between generations, the culture of care, or good politics.<\/p>\n The call to observe this day was first made by St. Paul VI, who established that on Jan. 1, 1968, the Day of Peace, now the World Day of Peace, would be held.<\/p>\n In his first message<\/a>, the pontiff expressed his belief that \u201cthis proposal interprets the aspirations of peoples, of their governments, of international organisms which strive to preserve peace in the world, of those religious institutions so interested in the promotion of peace, of cultural, political, and social movements which make peace their ideal; of youth, whose perspicacity regarding the new paths of civilization, dutifully oriented toward its peaceful developments is more lively; of wise men who see how much, today, peace is both necessary and threatened.\u201d<\/p>\n The pope\u2019s initiative preceded that of the United Nations, which in 1981 designated Sept. 21 as the International Day of Peace. In 2001, the General Assembly voted unanimously to designate the day as a period of nonviolence and cease-fire.<\/p>\n Dieser Artikel <\/em>wurde zuerst ver\u00f6ffentlicht<\/em><\/a> von ACI Prensa, dem spanischsprachigen Nachrichtenpartner von CNA. Der Text wurde von CNA \u00fcbersetzt und angepasst.<\/em><\/p>\nAn initiative of St. Paul VI<\/h2>\n