He Vatican will send into space in June the speech that the Pope Francisco pronounced on March 27, 2020 in which he stated that “no one is saved alone” and that all humanity is “in the same boat”in what is intended to be a “message of hope for humanity”, according to Télam sources from the Holy See.
The initiative continues with the mission that last year took the same work to a seed vault in the North Pole.
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Vatican sends Pope Francis’ speech into historic space
In what is being described as a “unique collaborative effort” between space exploration and Catholic Church, Vatican will put into orbit the remembered speech of the pontiff in the middle of the rain in the St. Peter’s Square to renew its importance as “a message of hope for humanity”.
Thus, the words of Francis will go into space through a joint initiative of the Italian Space Agencyof the National Research Council and of the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy Seethe sources specified.
The speech at the Statio Orbis in March 2020, which will be three years old tomorrow, was collected in a book entitled “Why are you afraid? Don’t you have faith yet?” edited by him Vatican and that the pontiff gives to personalities and heads of state who visit him.
“From that day on, various initiatives have been born so that this event is not forgotten and maintains its driving force to go beyond the pandemic. making every moment of difficulty stronger and richer with hope”, pointed out a Vatican source when explaining the initiative.
Last year, within this framework, the Pope’s words were deposited in the world seed bank, in the Svalbard Seed Vaultas “seeds of hope”in an initiative spearheaded by the Vatican Vice Minister of Communication, the Argentine Lucio Ruiz.
This year, “that seed of hope will fly into space in a totally unusual waytechnologically very advanced and culturally unprecedented to spread its universal message giving life to various related initiatives,” the sources deepened.
Source: Ambito