"God is love". His is not a sentimental, emotional kind of love but the love of the Father who is the origin of all life, the love of the Son who dies on the Cross and is raised, the love of the Spirit who renews human beings and the world. Thinking that God is love does us so much good, because it teaches us to love, to give ourselves to others as Jesus gave himself to us and walks with us. Jesus walks beside us on the road through life.

For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common good should not be simply an extra, simply a conceptual scheme of inferior quality tacked onto political programmes. The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!

We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities, they will get into drugs and be vulnerable to suicide.

The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people.

Jesus did not say: 'One of you go', but 'All of you go': we are sent together.