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A DOCUMENT ON HUMAN
F R AT E RNITY F OR WOR L D P E AC E
AND LIVING TOGETHER
Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar
signed the Document on Human Fraternity on 4
February 2019. It highlights the need for a sense of
fraternity amongst all men and women of goodwill
who are invited to promote justice and peace,
guaranteeing human rights and religious freedom.
 Promote Tolerance
To work strenuously to spread the culture
of tolerance and of living together in
peace, putting an end to wars,
environmental decay and moral and
cultural decline.
 UPHOLD JUSTICE

To implement an equitable distribution of natural

resources - which only a rich minority benefit from,
to the detriment of the majority of the peoples of
the earth.
 To protect the family that is the
fundamental nucleus of society and
Protect safeguard the gift of life: We condemn
family and all those practices that are a threat to
life life such as genocide, acts of terrorism,
forced displacement, human organ
trafficking, abortion and euthanasia.
We likewise condemn the policies that
promote these practices.
Declared “that religions must
never incite war, hateful attitudes,
hostility and extremism, nor must
they incite violence or the
shedding of blood. The Pope and Never kill in
the Grand Imam remember that God’s name
“God, the Almighty, has no need
to be defended by anyone and
does not want His name to be
used to terrorize people".
"Freedom is a right of every person: each individual
enjoys the freedom of belief, thought, expression and
action. The pluralism and the diversity of religions,
colour, sex, race and language are willed by God in
His wisdom.” For this reason “the fact that people are
forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must
be rejected, as too the imposition of a cultural way of
life that others do not accept.”

Religious freedom
No to "it is crucial to establish in
discriminatory our societies the concept
use of the term of full citizenship and reject
‘minorities’ the discriminatory use of
the term minorities which
engenders feelings of
isolation and inferiority.”
 It is “an essential requirement to recognize the
right of women to education and employment,
and to recognize their freedom to exercise their
own political rights ", in the effort to “free women
from historical and social conditioning that runs
Recognize
contrary to the principles of their faith and dignity.
women's It is also necessary to protect women from sexual
rights exploitation (…). Accordingly, an end must be
brought to all those inhuman and vulgar practices
that denigrate the dignity of women. Efforts must
be made to modify those laws that prevent
women from fully enjoying their rights”.
 “This Document become
the object of research and
reflection in all schools,
Education in schools
universities and institutes
and universities of formation” and a "sign
of the closeness between
East and West, between
North and South."
 “Religions, in particular, cannot renounce
the urgent task of building bridges
Religions are between peoples and cultures. The time
bridges has come when religions should more
between actively exert themselves, with courage
peoples and audacity, and without pretense, to
help the human family deepen the
capacity for reconciliation, the vision of
hope and the concrete paths of peace.”
RESOURCES:

Libreria Editrice Vaticana. (2019). Document on

Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living
Together by His Holiness Pope Francis and Grand
Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayyeb

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