{"id":18576,"date":"2025-02-04T17:18:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T01:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=18576"},"modified":"2025-04-22T19:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T02:08:09","slug":"pope-francis-announces-he-will-write-apostolic-exhortation-dedicated-to-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2025\/02\/04\/pope-francis-announces-he-will-write-apostolic-exhortation-dedicated-to-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Announces He Will Write Apostolic Exhortation Dedicated to Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

(ANS \u2013 Vatican City)<\/strong> \u2013 February 3, 2025, was a day dedicated to children. The Vatican held its first-ever International Summit on Children\u2019s Rights in the Apostolic Palace with the presence of Pope Francis, advocates, and heads of NGOs. Speakers from all over the world came to discuss the global crisis of millions of children without basic human rights. The message that rang throughout the Summit was that \u201cnothing is worth more than the life of a child.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a world marked by poverty, war, lack of education, and exploitation, children everywhere face injustice and vulnerabilities. Pope Francis expressed his gratitude to all the participants and speakers for making \u201cthe rooms of the Apostolic Palace an \u2018observatory\u2019 focused on the reality of childhood worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than simply a place to observe, the Pope described the Summit as \u201ca laboratory\u201d and highlighted a phrase Fr. Ibrahim Faltas, Vicar of the Custody of the Holy Land, used: \u201cChildren are watching us.\u201d He explained children are watching \u201cus to see how we move forward in life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pope closed his reflection explaining he intends to write an Apostolic Exhortation dedicated to children to “give continuity to this commitment and promote it throughout the Church.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven panels covered a range of topics: from children\u2019s rights in the modern world and access to education to the right to free time and the right to food and healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one of the first messages on the rights of children in the modern world, Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan exhorted the international community to care for every child no matter their situation. She stressed that was the promise the world made to children because \u201cevery child has an equal claim to our protection and care.\u201d The Queen emphasized a shocking statistic for children in Gaza: 96% reported feeling their death was imminent and almost 50% said they wished to die. She posed the question, \u201cHow did we let our humanity come to this?\u201d It\u2019s only if man makes a conscious effort, Queen Al Abdullah continued, can the beautiful vision of a better world comes together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another speaker was former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who warned against the threat of ecological devastation \u2013 which \u201cis a burden we have placed upon the children of our planet.\u201d He said a \u201cwillful blindness\u201d has kept many from seeing the effects of global warming, greenhouse gases, and other forms of climate change. Gore, the Founder and President of The Climate Reality Project emphasized that it is not the current generation that will live with the consequences, but our children\u2019s generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChildren are the beauty of the world,\u201d the President of GKSD Investment Holding Group, Kamel Ghiribi, stated. He argued we must look beyond simply finding the solution to hunger and injustice for children, \u201cwe must seek to find the problem behind the problem; the why.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He challenged everyone present and the international community to make this Summit different from others by going beyond words and living this call to aid children long after the Summit had ended. Rather than simply gathering all together, and listening to beautiful speeches, Ghiribi urged the Summit members to take action. \u201cI hope that when we all leave here today, we will make concrete gestures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of the Summit – in which Cardinal \u00c1ngel Fern\u00e1ndez Artime, SDB, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life also took part – Pope Francis and the other speakers signed a declaration of 8 principles regarding the protection and care of the rights of children. With this call to action and the goal of creating a just future, although the Summit ends today, its mission will carry on until every child has access to the most basic of human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuente: Vatican News<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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