[Italy] Casini: "Let's pledge for a world without gaps"

from AGI

Lower House speaker, Pier Ferdinando Casini, speaking in Manila at the international conference of centrist democrats, said: "We must pledge to create a world in which gaps are not so strong or I believe that we could not wish for a serene future".

Casini visited one of the poorest districts of Manila today, Tondo, in which there is an Italian mission led by father Giovanni Gentilin that works to alleviate the sufferance of the poor. "I'm very proud of men like father Giovanni. They alleviate, with their extraordinary work, thousands of children from a desperate condition" he said. Casini was worried about the condition of minors and denounced that in Manila there was trafficking of human beings and slavery.

"There won't be a decent future for anybody if poverty won't be defeated" Casini said. Casini proposed dialog among religions as a way to defeat terrorism. He also stressed that the rich countries had many responsibilities for the inhuman conditions of the lives of too many people in the developing countries. "We cannot leave the possibility to work for these people only to extraordinary volunteers like father Giovanni" he said.

According to Casini the west had to face the issue of the debt of the poor countries and had to boost the investments in these countries to give them a better future. Casini also visited the biggest dump of Asia after Calcutta's one in which thousands people live recycling rubbish. "We must rebel to some things. Too often we get used to the trafficking of human beings and children's organs" he said.

The Italian mission led by the Canossian priest wants to boost long distance adoptions of Tondo children. Casini said that it was necessary to boost the long distance adoptions of these children.