55th World Peace Day: Education, work and dialogue between generations

The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development presents the message for the 55th World Peace Day, an observance marked annually on 1 January.

By Vatican News staff writer

The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development has released the title of the next World Peace Day Message.

In a Communiqé released on Saturday, the Dicastery stated that the 55th World Day of Peace, to be held on 1 January 2022, will be entitled "Education, work and dialogue between generations: tools for building lasting peace".

Three contexts

In its communiqué the Dicastery writes that "Pope Francis thus identifies three vast contexts today in full mutation, to propose an innovative reading that responds to the needs of current and future times, inviting everyone 'to read the signs of the times with the eyes of faith', so that the direction of this change awakens new and old questions with which it is right and necessary to be confronted".

Questions

From the three identified contexts, the communiqué adds, the following questions arise:

Does work in the world respond, more or less, to the vital need of humans for justice and freedom?
Are the generations truly in solidarity with each other?
Do they believe in the future?
Do governments succeed in setting a horizon of peace in this context?