Pope’s theme for World Day of Peace 2011 released
(July 13,2010) “Religious freedom, the Path to Peace” is the theme chosen by Pope Benedict XVI, for the 44th World Day of Peace, said a communiqué from Vatican’s Press Office on Tuesday. The World Day of Peace is celebrated by the Catholic Church every year on the 1st of January. Vatican’s communiqué said the theme chosen for the 2011 World Day of Peace, represents an accomplishment of a “path to peace”, which Pope Benedict has invited the human family to consider in depth on several occasions. Since 2006, the Pope’s Message for the World Day of Peace has been focussing on important dimensions of the Truth. In 2006 it was “In Truth, Peace”. In 2007 - The dignity of the Human person, the Heart of Peace; in 2008 – The Human Family, a community of Peace; in 2009 – Fighting poverty to build Peace, and in 2010 it was “If you want to cultivate Peace, protect Creation”.
Today, there are many areas in the world, in which restrictions and limitations to religious freedom persist, both where communities of believers are a minority, and where communities of believers are not a minority, and where more sophisticated forms of discrimination and marginalisation exist, on the cultural level, and in the spheres of public civil and political participation. “It is inconceivable,” remarked Pope Benedict “that believers should have to suppress a part of themselves, their faith, in order to be active citizens. It should never be necessary to deny God in order to enjoy one’s rights, the Pope said.
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