Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline
Archbishop of Marseilles
"The ship that we are going to push on the waves, a small nutshell on the waves of the storms and the tears of our sea and our world, is intended as an ark of hope of which you, the young people who will embark at each stage of this great odyssey, will become the navigators. And I am sure that the compass of this navigation will help you find the right path and keep the right course throughout your lives.
Let us learn hope. Let us live in brotherhood. Let us cultivate friendship and trust. Let us bear witness to the love with which God loves the world, he who wishes to gather his scattered children into unity. Then our sea will be able to become more and more what it has always been intended to be: a link, a road and a door between peoples and civilizations."
Asma Lamrabet
Biologist in Rabat, essayist
"Thank you to the organizers and young people from all these countries and cultures for being part of this beautiful ship of the school for peace. Thank you for offering us this magnificent message of hope in the midst of this global chaos that we are all experiencing today!
Through your exchanges, I am sure that you have understood that it is your common humanity that counts and that your cultural, religious or other differences are an inestimable enrichment to your own humanity.
I am honored and delighted to be part - even if from afar - of this magnificent journey on this beautiful Mediterranean Sea, cradle of so many civilizations and intercultural exchanges.
Good luck and peace be with you all.
Barbara Cassin
Philologist, philosopher, member of the French Academy
"It is with joy that I support the Bel Espoir, its passengers, and the project of the Meetings for Peace around the Mediterranean.
This adventure at sea joins the adventure in words that we are leading to create a dictionary of the untranslatable of the three monotheisms. We start from the texts in languages, Torah, Bible, Koran, to understand and compare some key words or phrases around which these books are wrapped, thus exploring symptoms of difference and, far from any fundamentalism, complicating the universal."
Bishop Jacques Mourad
Syriac Catholic Bishop of Homs
"The MED path that began a few years ago seeks to build a new world where Peace dominates through the effort of young people who come together from all countries to live together and get to know each other, which is the foundation of building Peace.
Peace education in the conditions of countries of different faiths and ethnicities like ours is necessary at this time when we are going through a great radical change in our dictatorship system of government.
Knowledge of oneself and of others, knowledge of history is very important for forgiveness and reconciliation.
I pray to the Lord that these symbolic meetings will create important bonds to build a world of peace in the Mediterranean basin. I pray for the Church, which will take responsibility for the commitment to create a path of hope in a world that lives in total darkness."
Cecile Renouard
President of the Transition Campus, professor of philosophy, member of the Catholic congregation of the Religious of the Assumption
"This year we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the publication by Pope Francis of the encyclical Laudato si'. For the safeguarding of our common home. More than ever, in a context of war and withdrawal into identity, of perversion of language and refusal to confront the realities of the ecological and social emergency, we need to hear the call to listen to "the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor."
The Pope provides criteria for discernment and action: redefining progress, recognizing the ecological debt of the richest people and regions to the most vulnerable, seeking to articulate ecological, social, economic, cultural, and civic issues (which is what the notion of integral ecology proposes), cultivating dialogue, and promoting simplicity, friendship, and happy sobriety.
Congratulations to all those who live and bring to life the Med 25 experience, in the service of the deployment of capacities and skills for peace, development, universal brotherhood and the care of the living!"
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