I extend my appreciation to the associations, movements and all those who defend human life.

Dear young people, Jesus wants to be your friend, and wants you to spread the joy of this friendship everywhere.

Today Saint Paul has told us that in Christ we have become God’s adopted children, brothers and sisters in Christ. This is who we are. This is our identity.

Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.

Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have been displaced by force, with effective projects and new approaches in order to protect their dignity, to improve the quality of their life and to face the challenges that are emerging from modern forms of persecution, oppression and slavery.

In mission, also on a continental level, it is very important to reaffirm the family, which remains the essential cell of society and the Church; young people, who are the face of the Church's future; women, who play a fundamental role in passing on the faith and who are a daily source of strength in a society that carries this faith forward and renews it.

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.