International Day of Human Solidarity

The aim of the UN is to make solidarity the true pillar of international relations, ensuring that actions of solidarity help to solve economic, social and cultural problems.

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From the point of view of responsibility, we are in the midst of a biblical challenge. Our environment is deteriorating at an alarming rate and societies are increasingly divided, with more and more losers, and more and more – apparently – powerful winners.

The mission may seem almost impossible: to invent together the “each for all” in a framework of globalised solidarity. Towards a society in which every act – from voting to consumption – has global repercussions, let us not give up on developing a sense of common belonging and mutual responsibility. In this way, our reference group would no longer be limited to those who share our blood, our language, the colour of our skin or our political choices, but would encompass those who share the same human condition as us. Our common destiny would then lead us to consider collective survival as a guarantee of our own.

On a global level, the way proposed by the Congregation passes through cultural decentralisation, recognition of the other, dialogue and empathy. The ability to enter into a relationship of solidarity that goes beyond the circle of people close to us and our community, and that becomes a human solidarity that embraces all cultural groups and even future generations in justice and peace.