Pope Urges Worldwide Peace in New Year
ABC NewsPope Benedict XVI Calls on the World's Nations to Champion Peace and Human Rights in 2007
Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful at the end of the New Year's Day Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican Monday, Jan. 1, 2007. The Pontiff called in New Year's appeals Monday for nations to champion world peace, and urged people to repudiate war and violence. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
By FRANCES D'EMILIO
VATICAN CITY Jan 1, 2007 (AP)— Pope Benedict XVI called on the world's nations to champion peace and human rights and urged people to repudiate war and violence in his New Year's address Monday.
The pontiff, who wished tens of thousands of pilgrims crowded into St. Peter's Square "peace and well being" in 2007, prayed that people would develop a "sacred respect for every person and the firm repudiation of war and violence."
"Today, there is a lot of talk about human rights but often it is forgotten that these need a stable foundation, not a relative one, not one subject to opinion," the pope said during his blessing to the faithful. "And this cannot be anything but the dignity of the person. Respect for this dignity starts with the recognition and the protection of the right to live and to freely profess one's own religion."
In his homily during the earlier New Year's Day Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, the pope urged peace in the Holy Land.
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