IFCA has been promoting since 2014 a simple initiative ONE MINUTE FOR PEACE, recalling the invocation for peace in the Vatican Gardens on 8 June 2014 by Pope Francis together with the then President of Israel, Shimon Peres, the President of the Palestinian Authority, Maḥmūd ʿAbbās – Abu Mazen and in the presence of the Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I.
Ten years have now passed, we need to intensify our prayer. From 8 June 2024 to 8 June 2025 we propose a monthly appointment praying for peoples in conflict in the company of witnesses of peace, encouraged by Pope Francis .
We began on 8 July praying for Israel and Palestine with Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, today for Ukraine and Myanmar with St. Francis.
PROGRAMME
Presentation and welcome by Eva Fernández Mateo, FIAC/IFCA Secretariat Coordinator
First Session
UKRAINE
An intervention on the situation
Msgr. Teodor Martynyuk M.S.U. (Теодор Мартинюк), Auxiliary bishop of Ternopil – Zboriv, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Msgr. Bohdan DZYURAKH, C.S.R., Apostolic Exarch of Germany and Scandinavia
Msgr. Radosław ZMITROWICZ, O.M.I., Auxiliary Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi
Mariia SABOV from Ukraine, representative of continent EUROPE in the Synod Video by Mukačevo Eparchy
MYANMAR
An intervention on the situation
Card. Charles Maung BO, S.D.B., Archbishop of Yangon
Msgr John SAW YAW HAN, Bishop of Kengtung
awaited confirmation
Second Session
Praying for peace in the company of St Francis of Assisi
for the initiative
AT LEAST ONE MINUTE FOR PEACE ON THE WAY TO FRATERNITY.
In prayer with Mary Queen of the Human Family, Queen of Peace, every day of the month and especially on the 8th
with Rev. Fr. Joel Casimiro DA COSTA PINTO, O.F.M., representative of continent ASIA in the Synod
Webinar with simultaneous translation in Spanish, Italian, English, French
