VATICAN CITY, MAR 5, 1999 (VIS) - Members of the Committee of Information and Initiatives for Peace (COMIN) were welcomed today by the Pope, who highlighted their "praiseworthy commitment" and "the passion with which each of you places his talents and service at the cause of peace and the research of the most appropriate way to achieve just cooperation between men and peoples."
"You have chosen to be present," he remarked, "through opportune diplomatic channels, in the most risky contexts, offering the leaders of nations in conflict, information and scientific and moral contributions (which can be) useful for a fair solution to the problems."
John Paul II pointed out that today there is, "in large numbers of the world's population, a horror of war and a profound desire for peace. ... This is a sentiment which must be constantly cultivated and encouraged, because it is only in the rejection of every form of violence and a sincere search for coexistence ... that there will be the indispensable premises for building a civil world based on solidarity."
Essential to building peace, stated the Holy Father, is "the defense of human rights, without which, the seeds of instability, rebellion and violence inevitably increase. ... Respect for human rights is closely linked to that of the rights of God. There is no future of peace for a society which does not respect God. ... And this is why every human community which aspires to peace, cannot not place as the basis of its coexistence the recognition of the primacy of God and respect for religious freedom," which "constitutes the heart of human rights."
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