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World Day of Peace 2017 to Focus on Nonviolent Politics
Pope Francis focused the theme for the 2017 World Day of Peace on nonviolence as a political solution to what he has frequently termed a “piecemeal World War III” being waged throughout the globe.
“Violence and Peace are at the origin of two opposite ways to building society,” an Aug. 26 communique from the Vatican’s Council for Justice and Peace announcing the theme read.
“The proliferation of hotbeds of violence produces most serious negative social consequences. … Peace, by contrast, promotes social positive consequences and it allows the achievement of real progress.”
Therefore, “we should act within what is possible, and negotiate ways of peace even where they seem tortuous and impractical,” the message attached to the theme said.
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