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The hatred against\nChristians being fed daily in the Middle East and in many other parts of the\nworld urges us to continue our 'Appeal to the human'. The latest massacre of\nChristians (72 victims for the most part it was mothers and their children in a\npark) happened on Easter Sunday in Lahore in Pakistan was claimed by the\nTalibans. The horror has already disappeared from the mass media, but we remain\nfaithful to the appeals of the Pope, who in his message Urbi et Orbi of March\n27 said: "Faced with the spiritual and moral abyss of humanity, only\ninfinite mercy can give us salvation, opposite gaps that open in the\nhearts and causing hate and death . Only God can fill with his love these\ndepths".
For this we\npropose again, Wednesday, April 20 at 21 the recitation of the rosary in the\nsquare Three Martyrs of Rimini. As testimony will be with us Father Ihab\nAlrachid, a greek Melkite priest, originally from Damascus. Father Alrachid, on\nthe 19 of the same day, will be in the square John Paul II in Cesena for a\nsimilar initiative. So Cesena commences this meeting of prayer and solidarity,\nbegan in August 2014 and which is repeated from then on the 20th of each month,\nwith the same formula. The same initiative is also offered in Lugano in Piazza\nSan Rocco. Simultaneously the network of prayer among so many monastic\ncommunities in Italy and in the world is extending. Several communities have\njoined and confirmed their participation: the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of\nMoldova Nasi Pani (Czech Republic), religious Eucharistic Adoration of\nPietrarubbia, the monastery of Santa Maria Maddalena di Sant'Agata Feltria, the\nCarmelites of St. Teresa Tolentino, the Poor Clare monastery of the Nativity of\nRimini, the Poor Clares of St. Agnes in Perugia, the Poor Clares of Foligno,\nthe Carmelites of Fatima, the Chaldean sisters of the Daughters of Mary\nImmaculate in Rome and also father Bahjat from Damascus and Fr Georges Jahola\nfrom Erbil (two priests who were in Rimini in previous editions of the Appeal\nto the human). More recently the Poor Clares of Todi and the Cistercian nuns\nValserena have also joined this list.
Along with prayer\nthere is also the solidarity initiative proposed together with the nonprofit\norganization Horizons of Cesena: 'Adopt a Syrian family'.
