CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Addressing a global summit on humanitarian aid, Pope Francis offered encouragement and a reminder \u2013 don\u2019t ever forget that each suffering person you encounter has a name.<\/p>\n\u201c(T)here must be no family without a home, no refugee without a welcome, no person without dignity, no young man or woman without a future, no elderly person without a dignified old age,\u201d the Pope said.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018Leaving no one behind\u2019 and \u2018doing one\u2019s very best\u2019 demands that we do not give up and that we take responsibility for our decisions and actions regarding the victims themselves,\u201d he said to the World Humanitarian Summit meeting May 23 in Istanbul.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one loves a concept, no one loves an idea. We love persons. Self-sacrifice, true self-giving, flows from love towards men and women, the children and elderly, peoples and communities\u2026 faces, those faces and names which fill our hearts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, read the Pope\u2019s message to U.N. Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon and summit attendees. The first-of-its-kind summit gathered together leaders or delegates from 175 countries to craft non-binding commitments on humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n
At least 130 million people are in need of humanitarian aid around the world, while about 60 million people are displaced by conflict each year, the U.N. estimates. There is also a $15 billion shortfall between aid pledged and aid that is actually delivered.<\/p>\n
Representatives of various humanitarian groups spoke during the summit. Sean Callahan, chief operating officer of Catholic Relief Services, emphasized the importance of disaster risk reduction.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur collective unwillingness to prevent or prepare adequately for disasters is a systemic moral failure,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is the time to reform the global humanitarian system.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
Callahan said CRS, the U.S. branch of Caritas Internationalis, is working to cooperate with local partners and promote peace, while cultivating the ability to \u201ctransition quickly between disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and development.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur comprehensive approach provides urgent lifesaving assistance with a focus on full recovery \u2013 respecting people\u2019s inherent dignity, helping them get back on their feet, and strengthening their long-term resilience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe call on all stakeholders to contribute to systemic reforms that both ends need and improves global humanitarian action.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cardinal Parolin addressed the summit in several sessions. His remarks in the leader\u2019s session said heavy reliance on military intervention and \u201cselfish\u201d economic policies is \u201cshortsighted, counterproductive and never the right solution for these challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n
He urged better education to encourage respect for the human person and to help prevent genocide.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Holy See is doing its part to build a real and concrete fraternity, among peoples and nations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
During a leadership roundtable to prevent and end conflicts, Cardinal Parolin said the Holy See is \u201cfirmly convinced of the fundamentally inhumane nature of war and of the urgent necessity to prevent and to end armed conflicts and violence among peoples and States.\u201d<\/p>\n
At a summit roundtable focused on helping displaced persons, the cardinal noted Catholic institutions\u2019 efforts to help relieve displaced persons\u2019 physical sufferings and address their material and physical needs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Holy See is committed to advocating for the protection and proper assistance to forced migrants, internally displaced peoples and victims of trafficking, and to working to find durable solutions and reconcile communities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In his message to the summit, Pope Francis voiced hope that the gathering would make real contributions to lessen the sufferings of millions of people. He called for \u201ca true and profound respect\u201d for those who suffer due to violence, persecution, natural disasters and other calamities.<\/p>\n
He especially noted the victims who are most vulnerable and live \u201cin conditions of misery and exploitation.\u201d<\/p>\n
He asked the summit: \u201cLet us hear the cry of the victims and those suffering. Let us allow them to teach us a lesson in humanity. Let us change our ways of life, politics, economic choices, behaviors and attitudes of cultural superiority.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLearning from victims and those who suffer, we will be able to build a more humane world,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
The Pope also noted the obstacles to peace.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cannot deny that many interests today prevent solutions to conflicts, and that military, economic and geopolitical strategies displace persons and peoples and impose the god of money, the god of power,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the same time, humanitarian efforts are frequently conditioned by commercial and ideological constraints.\u201d<\/p>\n
He called for a renewed commitment to \u201cprotect each person in their daily life and to protect their dignity and human rights, their security and their comprehensive needs.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Pope also recognized relief workers who \u201cserve their neighbor and contribute to consoling the sufferings of the victims of war and calamity, of the displaced and refugees, and who care for society, particularly through courageous choices in favor of peace, respect, healing and forgiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the way in which human lives are saved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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