Prayer for the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims

Photo by Laryn Kragt Bakker

 

This year, the Commission for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation of the USG/UISG Secretariat in Rome has prepared a prayer service for March 24, the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims.

The prayer is available in multiple languages, including French, Spanish, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, German, Polish, Portuguese, Korean, and English.

A church that does not provoke any crises, a gospel that does not unsettle, a word of God that does not get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed—what gospel is that?

Archbishop Romero, April 16, 1978