"The truth will overcome the lie" | Pope's letter to …

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, imprisoned since April 2018 after being convicted of corruption, yesterday revealed a letter addressed to him by Pope Francis in which the pontiff regretted the "harsh ordeals" that he he suffered and what Exhorts not to give up the fight. "Good will conquer evil, truth will overcome lies, and salvation will overcome condemnation," writes the Pontiff's letter.

On his website, Lula published the letter in Portuguese in which the pope expressed his solidarity for the death of his wife Marisa Leticia Rocco in 2017 and for those of his brother Genivaldo Inácio da Silva and his seven-year-old grandson. Arthur Araújo Lula da Silva, deceased this year. "I am aware of the hardships you have experienced recently, especially the loss of some loved ones, his wife Marisa Leticia, his brother Genival Ignacio and, more recently, his grandson Arthur of only seven years. I want to express my spiritual closeness and encourage people to ask not to be discouraged and to continue to trust God. "The letter, dated May 3, was the letter sent by Lula in April, where Francis expressed his" spiritual closeness "and asks the leader of the PT "courage not to get discouraged and to continue to trust God".

Lula is serving a sentence of eight years and ten months in Curitiba (south), as part of an investigation revealed during the investigation conducted as part of the Lava-Jato operation, which put at day a gigantic corruption network in the state oil company Petrobras. major builders and politicians of the country. The judge of the time who had sentenced him, Sergio Moro, today justice minister of the right-wing government Jair Bolsonaro, had acknowledged in his sentence that, in the absence of evidence solid, he had ruled on the basis of his "convictions". The head of the Catholic Church makes no reference to the judicial situation of the former president, but points out that the considerations made by Lula in his April letter on the Brazilian political situation were very useful.

The letter also expresses François' religious reflections on politics: "As I pointed out in the message of the 52nd World Day of Peace held on 1 January, political responsibility is a constant challenge for all those involved. who are mandated to serve his country, to protect the people who live in it and to work to create the conditions for a dignified and just future.As my predecessors, I am convinced that politics can become a reality. eminent form of charity if it is applied in the fundamental respect of the life, freedom and dignity of persons ".

The pontiff also refers to the celebrations of Pbadover and the resurrection of Jesus and describes the moment as the hope of an awakening of humanity. "In these days, we are celebrating the resurrection of the Lord.The triumph of Jesus Christ over death is the hope of humanity.His Pbadover, his pbadage from death to life, is also our Pbadover Thanks to him, we can go from darkness to light, from the slavery of this world to the freedom of the promised land, from the sin that separates us from God and the brothers towards the friendship that unites us. to him, "he says. In the message, Francis asks Jesus and the Virgin Mary to protect Lula and badure him of his prayer, while asking him the Brazilian politician who does not stop praying for him as well.

The official website of Lula on the internet reminded that in 2018, the pope had sent to the former president a blessed rosary, handed personally by the Argentine social leader Juan Grabois, who had visited him in prison.