Pope calls for peace and global solidarity As is usual on December 25, Benedict XVI gave the world the traditional Christmas message and blessing urbi et orbi. Yesterday, shortly before midnight Mass, was attacked by a woman with psychiatric problems Google translation. Revised by Walter Lippmann. Redacción Digital digital@juventudrebelde.cu December 25, 2009 14:29:43 CDT ROME, Dec. 25 .- Pope Benedict XVI gave today's traditional Christmas message and blessing urbi et orbi with wishes for peace and global solidarity, after suffering a fall yesterday in an attack by a woman, reported Prensa Latina. From the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, the Pope greeted the crowd and blessed those present and all the faithful of Christianity with its message Urbi et Orbi (To the city and the world). He read Christmas congratulations in 65 languages, according to tradition, to the thousands of enthusiastic people attended the ceremony under a blazing sun. Benedict XVI referred to the violence and injustice in the Holy Land (the Levant), conflicts in Africa, the situation of the Christian community in Iraq and the effects of global financial and economic crisis for families and villages. He mentioned among the great problems facing the world today, wars, destruction of nature and migration due to hunger, intolerance and environmental degradation, coupled with criticism of individual and collective selfishness. "Given the exodus of emigrants from their land and because of hunger, intolerance or environmental degradation are forced to go away, the Church is a presence that calls received," the pope said in his Christmas message was broadcast live on television in many countries. In a special message to Latin America, the head of the Catholic Church called because they help her back on track Honduras constitutional by the institutional and political crisis that triggered the military coup last June against the legitimate president, Manuel Zelaya. Also highlighted the role of the Church in the region. He also extended a call to peace for all inhabitants of the planet to invite them to abandon the logic of violence and revenge for a peaceful coexistence. The Attempt on the Pope Last night, shortly before midnight Mass, when Benedict walked down the main aisle of the basilica of St. Peter escorted by some thirty cardinals, a woman jumped the security fence, took him by the neck and pushed him down. The Pope, 82, escaped injury in the fall, but had to start two hours before the Mass, to avoid tiring too. However, French Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, 87, will have surgery for a broken femur, reported the Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi. French Cardinal Paul Poupard, who was a few yards from the Pope, described on French radio RTL speed of the assault: "She was two steps, was one that was closer to him we went singing (...), with the joy of Christmas and suddenly I heard a scream, then I turned and saw a person who was rushing, "said AFP. The aggressor, Susanna Maiolo, an Italian-Swiss 25 years, was admitted to a hospital where he is undergoing psychiatric treatment, said Lombardi. This same woman had previously attempted attack the pontiff last year during the midnight mass. Hundreds of messages of solidarity and affection have been sent to the pope, including the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, and the rabbi of Rome, Riccardo Di Segni. Assaults on the pontiffs are recurrent in history. One of the most serious was on John Paul II, on 13 May 1981, when he was shot in the Plaza de San Pedro, wounding him seriously. http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/internacionales/2009-12-25/el-papa-aboga-por-la-paz-y-solidaridad-mundial/ |
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El Papa aboga por la paz y solidaridad mundial Como es costumbre los 25 de diciembre, Benedicto XVI dio al mundo el tradicional mensaje de Navidad y la bendición Urbi et orbi. Ayer, poco antes de la Misa del Gallo, fue agredido por una mujer con problemas psiquiátricos
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OMA, diciembre, 25.— El Papa
Benedicto XVI pronunció hoy el tradicional mensaje de Navidad y la
bendición Urbi et orbi con votos por la paz y la solidaridad mundial,
tras sufrir ayer una caída por un ataque de una mujer, informó
Prensa Latina.
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