Witnesses of Mercy for Peace and Reconciliation

87 for your sharing of the power of mercy. Every one of you has the facility to reach thousands, if not millions of people in order to share these thoughts. I just want to offer one example. In Japan, I witnessed the building of a great institution by our Board Member, Reverend Kosho Niwano and her community. Through this institution, millions of people in her community are practicing mercy and listening to its message. Around the world, there are so many similar examples, whether among our Buddhist friends, or among our Hindu, Sikh, Druze, Yazidi, Christian, Jewish, Sarnaist/indigenous and Muslim friends. All of these friends of mercy and dialogue together move millions of people. So this mes- sage from Rome will be carried to a much wider world. And there, I hope and wish that we will talk and, most importantly, implement. In implementation, we must affect lifestyles. Our message must reach a community’s roots. We have a long way to go, and yet the stories of mercy that are the most moving are the ones that come from the world’s CONCLUDING WORDS