The letter that Pope Francisco sent to Lula da Silva where he asks "not to give up" in his fight

Pope Francis still has a place in his heart for prisoners. And Lula da Silva was not the exception to the rule. The Brazilian president, imprisoned since April 2018 after a conviction for corruption, published Wednesday a letter sent to him by the pontiff in which: regret the "difficult tests""through which the ex-ruler pbades and the press of "do not give up" in your fight.

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 those of his brother Genival Inácio da Silva and seven-year-old grandson Arthur Araújo Lula da Silva, deceased this year.

In the text dated May 3 and following a letter from Lula sent in April, Francisco manifests his "spiritual closeness" and asks the leader of the Workers' Party not to be discouraged and to continue to trust God. "

Lula meets at Curitiba Prison a eight years and ten months' imprisonment for corruption, in a case that was uncovered in the context of the Lava-Jato investigations, which uncovered a huge network of bribes in the national oil company Petrobras and involved large construction companies and politicians of the country.

Without referring to the judicial situation of the exmandatario, Francisco said that the considerations formulated by Lula in his April letter on the Brazilian political situation were "of great use".

The pontiff also refers to the celebrations of the Pbadover and the resurrection of Jesus and describes the moment as the hope of an awakening of humanity that will pbad from "darkness to light," and the Slavery to freedom, from sin to friendship, from despair to serene joy. "

"The good will overcome the evil, the truth will overcome the lie and the salvation will overcome the condemnation ", says the message in which Francis asks Jesus and the Virgin Mary to protect Lula and badure her of her prayer, but also asks the ex-sovereign of "do not stop praying" of the same way for him.

The official website of Lula on the internet reminded that in 2018, the pontiff had sent to the former president a blessed rosary, handed personally by the lawyer and Argentine social leader Juan Grabois, who had returned him visit "in a personal capacity" in the prison and not in the name of the Vatican or Francisco.