Pope Francis on Friday
urged magistrates involved in the Colombian peace process to
work with "creativity and courage to find solutions to
strengthen peace and justice".
The pope sent a message to the 18th meeting of the Ordinary
Jurisdiction involving the Colombian judiciary on the theme
'Transitional justice, peace, post-conflict'.
The letter, addressed to the Secretary General of the
Colombian episcopate, Mgr. José Daniel Falla Robles, was signed
by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
In the letter, the pope said that the theme of the meeting
"is of crucial importance for the future of Colombia and, in the
current globalized era, has a scope going beyond national
borders".
Colombia has been torn by civil conflicts since the early
1960s, involving various criminal and paramilitary groups as
well as the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia-People's Army (FARC).
Francis said in his letter that he hoped that by finding
solutions "that strengthen peace and justice, in accordance with
the national and international legal systems...the meeting will
help to achieve the construction of an increasingly more
inclusive and stable and lasting peace".
The pope has previously offered to try to help resolve the
conflicts in Colombia.
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