Poorest at back of COVID vaccine line Development and Peace and its Caritas partners have launched public information campaigns in Bangladesh and other nations to educate people about COVID-19. Photo courtesy of Caritas Internationalis December 19, 2020
Canada, with 37.6 million people, has agreements to purchase 194 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines with options to buy another 220 million. If all these vaccines pan out, we could vaccinate Canada’s entire population almost six times over.
In contrast, 70 of the world’s poorest nations face 2021 with only enough vaccine to potentially protect one in 10 citizens, according to the People’s Vaccine Alliance, an outgrowth of the UN and large charities.
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis appealed for a “culture of care” in his message for the 2021 World Day of Peace released Thursday, Dec.17.
“The culture of care … calls for a common, supportive and inclusive commitment to protecting and promoting the dignity and good of all, a willingness to show care and compassion, to work for reconciliation and healing, and to advance mutual respect and acceptance. As such, it represents a privileged path to peace,” Pope Francis wrote in the peace message published Dec. 17.
“May we never yield to the temptation to disregard others, especially those in greatest need, and to look the other way; instead, may we strive daily, in concrete and practical ways, to form a community composed of brothers and sisters who accept and care for one another.”
By Devin Watkins
The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development on Wednesday hosts a webinar to push for global nuclear disarmament.
It comes on the heels of Pope Francis’ recent encyclical
Fratelli tutti, in which he calls for international peace and stability to be based on mutual trust rather than the threat of mutual destruction.
According to Prof. Gerard Powers, a member of the Vatican Covid-19 Commission’s task force for security, the event was organized for a three-fold purpose.
The Coordinator of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network told Vatican Radio that the first goal of the webinar is to present the recent publication of a book entitled “A World Free from Nuclear Weapons”. The volume contains the papers from a major symposium held by the Vatican in 2017 to relaunch efforts toward creating a world free of nuclear weapons.
Vatican minister: Nuclear deterrence gives false sense of security
A nuclear-free world can only be achieved through a renewed sense of unity and solidarity, says Archbishop Gallagher
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Russian RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile systems are seen on Red Square for the Victory Day parade in Moscow, Russia, on May 9, 2019. (Photo: CGTN/Xinhua)
The goal of a nuclear-free world can only be achieved through a renewed sense of unity and solidarity among nations that breaks the dynamic of mistrust, said Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Vatican foreign minister.
Addressing a webinar Dec. 16 on nuclear disarmament, Archbishop Gallagher highlighted the Vatican s support of political dialogue that goes beyond the theory of fear and of the need to emphasize how nuclear deterrence represents a false sense of security and of stability.
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis appealed for a “culture of care” in his message for the 2021 World Day of Peace released Thursday, Dec.17.
“The culture of care … calls for a common, supportive and inclusive commitment to protecting and promoting the dignity and good of all, a willingness to show care and compassion, to work for reconciliation and healing, and to advance mutual respect and acceptance. As such, it represents a privileged path to peace,” Pope Francis wrote in the peace message published Dec. 17.
“May we never yield to the temptation to disregard others, especially those in greatest need, and to look the other way; instead, may we strive daily, in concrete and practical ways, to form a community composed of brothers and sisters who accept and care for one another.”