With peace, exhorted Benedict XVI, "may all the earth find again its vocation and mission as a ‘common house’ for every people and nation, through the shared commitment of an ever-sincere and responsible dialogue". In highlighting that the Holy Land, Iraq and Lebanon are "present with the urgency and constancy they deserve in the prayer and in the action of the Apostolic See and all the Church", the Pope asked "the Congregation for the Eastern Churches and all its associates to confirm the same care, in order to increase the effectiveness of their sympathy and their actions for so many brothers and sisters of ours", so that "they may feel, from now on, the comfort of ecclesial fraternity" and "may soon get a glimpse of the dawn of the days of peace". As he renewed to the Chaldeian Patriarch, who was attending the meeting, his condolence "for the savage murder of a helpless priest and three sub-deacons" on June 3rd in Iraq, the Holy Father highlighted that "the whole Church follows with affection and admiration all its sons and daughters and supports them at this time of true martyrdom for the name of Christ". As to the work of Roaco, the Pontiff made the wish that "the irreplaceable contribution you make to the testimony of the ecclesial love may find its full development in the communitarian form of its practice". (continued)
