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Edson Nelson Soares Botelho
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PEACE
Message for the World Day of Peace, I wish to offer to
everyone, individuals and peoples, my best wishes for
a life filled with joy and hope. In the heart of every man
and woman is the desire for a full life, including that
irrepressible longing for fraternity which draws us to
fellowship with others and enables us to see them not as
enemies or rivals, but as brothers and sisters to be accepted.
GOD BLESS
GLOBALIZATION
Globalization makes us neighbours, but does not
make us brothers. The many situations of inequality,
poverty and injustice, are signs not only of a profound
lack of fraternity, but also of the absence of a culture
of solidarity. New ideologies, characterized by rampant
individualism, egocentrism and materialistic consumerism,
weaken social bonds, fuelling that “throw away” mentality
which leads to contempt abandonment of the weakest and
those considered “useless."
