00:00A crisis impacting these regions of Cameroon
00:04has brought Christian and Muslim communities closer than ever before.
00:11Indeed, your religious leaders have come together
00:15to establish a movement for peace
00:18to which they seek to mediate between the opposing sides.
00:24I wish this would happen in so many other places of the world.
00:30Your witness, your work for peace, can be a model for the whole world.
00:41Jesus told us,
00:43Blessed are the peacemakers,
00:45but woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God
00:50for their own military, economic, or political gain,
00:55dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.
00:59And as Sister Corrine reminded us,
01:02it is also dangerous.
01:05The masters of war pretend not to know
01:08that it takes only a moment to destroy.
01:12Yet often, a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild.
01:18They turn a blind eye to the fact
01:20that billions of dollars are spent on killing,
01:23on devastation.
01:25Yet the resources needed for healing,
01:28education, and restoration
01:30are nowhere to be found.
01:33Those who rob your land of its resources
01:36generally invest much of the profit in weapons,
01:40thus perpetuating an endless cycle
01:50and as we were hearing Pope Leo's address to the meeting,
01:57we listen once again.
02:01Let's make a decisive change, of course,
02:06a conversion that will lead us in the opposite direction,
02:10onto a sustainable path rich in human fraternity.
02:16The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants.
02:21It is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.
02:25They are the descendants of Abraham,
02:29as numerous as the stars in the sky
02:31and the grains of sand on the seashore.
02:35Let us look into each other's eyes.
02:39We are this immense people.
02:42Peace is not something we must invent.
02:45It is something we must embrace
02:47by accepting our neighbor as our brother
02:51and as our sister.
02:53We do not choose our brothers and sisters.
02:56We simply must accept one another.
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