“When my children come back from school every day, they tell of their experiences of new friends from other ethnic communities whom they knew as enemies before. They now play together, sit together, share meals, plant ‘peace trees’ together… but they say, they have learnt this new way of co-existence through the peace clubs."
The “valuable work carried out to date to build new relationships across these islands must not be undermined.”
President of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace pays first visit to Belfast.
President of Caritas Syria, Bishop Antoine Audo SJ, describes conditions in Aleppo, ravaged by four years of conflict.