In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

The church must constantly promote dialogue.

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.