” “Carrying together "each other’s burdens". This is the Pope’s orders to the Movimento dei Focolari, the charisma of which is at the "service of the unity that materialises in different social and cultural spheres (including the economic one, with the "economy of communion"), and to Comunità di Sant’Egidio, which "wants to get close to those who experience distress and social exclusion". "For a Christian, no man, even if distant, is ever a stranger", recalled the Pope: "Together he added we can face with stronger determination the challenges that heavily approach us at the dawn of the third millennium". One of these, mentioned the Pope, is the "pursue of justice and peace" and "the urgency to build a more fraternal, more sympathetic world, starting just from the countries which some of you come from, and which are worn-out by bloodshed". "I am referring in particular to Africa, a continent that I cherish in my heart and that I hope can at least experience a time of stable peace and true development", concluded Benedict XVI, according to whom "the next Synod of the African Bishops will certainly be a favourable time to show the great love that God gives to the beloved African populations".” “
