PerugiAssisi

Peace March, a river of people as in 2001. Parolin: justice for all peoples

It's a PerugiAssisi march 'not seen since 2001 when there was a few days after the invasion of Afghanistan following the attack on the Twin Towers' today. This was said by Flavio Lotti, the event's long-time organiser

12 October 2025

Un momento della Marcia per la Pace da Perugia ad Assisi.Sono decine di migliaia le persone che partecipano o assiepate lungo il percorso, Perugia, 12 ottobre 2025. ANSA / GIANLUIGI BASILIETTI

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Parolin: "Let justice be done for all peoples"
Mayo of Perugia: "At the march a sea that defends humanity"
Fortunate Father: "The powerful listen to the many children on the march"

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Today's PerugiAssisi march "has not been seen since 2001 when there was a few days after the invasion of Afghanistan following the attack on the Twin Towers", says Flavio Lotti, who has always organised the event, when questioned by ANSA. "It is a river of people, 14 uninterrupted kilometres from Perugia to Assisi" he added. "All those who love peace cannot but be happy about this participation", Lotti underlined.

Parolin: 'Let justice be done for all peoples'

"We continue to believe that the formula of two states for two peoples is the formula that can help solve the problems and relations between Jews and Palestinians and it is perfectly in line with what we have always asked for", said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, speaking in Assisi where he presided over the Eucharistic celebration on the occasion of the liturgical memory of Saint Charles Acutis.

Parolin said that 'there will be no true peace without justice for all peoples', because 'as the Church has always said, the foundation of peace must be justice'.

La marcia della pace
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Albanese: 'In the peace plan for Gaza there are too many absentees'

"In the peace plan proposed by Trump and Netanyau there are too many absentees. First of all the Palestinians, co-opted by technocrats. Where are they?" said Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, in Perugia where she is taking part in the Peace March. "Where is the West Bank and where is justice?" she added. "What has been done in Gaza - Albanese said - is not an earthquake outcome but the result of an intentional plan wanted and executed in order to destroy it. There is no such thing. There is talk of reconstruction on the rubble and mass graves but not of mending the tear made to the soul of that people. I am very worried".

Albanese then commented on Giorgia Meloni's recent words according to which the agreement is the merit of Trump and not of the CGIL demonstrations or Francesca Albanese. "What she is talking about yes, this agreement is the merit of Trump," the UN rapporteur's response. "Those who know Palestine, however," she added, "know that peace without rights does not work. Of course what we have today after two years of genocide is the merit of Trump, but in my opinion it will not lead to peace if you mean an end to violence. It will not happen.

Of the March, Albanese said that "it is beautiful, with a lot of people and aware". "I don't think I have ever felt the need to be there, with body and soul. Peace is not the absence of war but the enjoyment of rights, freedom and justice. When you commit crimes you pay. This is the peace that the March demands".

Mayor of Perugia: 'At the march a sea that defends humanity'

“E’ un’immagine stupenda questo mare che difende l’umanità. Grazie Perugia, non sei stata mai così bella”: la sindaca Vittoria Ferdinandi ha salutato così i partecipanti alla Marcia PerugiAssisi. Con lei anche i componenti della giunta, la presidente del Consiglio comunale Elena Ranfa e numerosi consiglieri. “Voglio ringraziare - ha continuato la sindaca - tutte le persone che oggi si sono svegliate all’alba per raggiungerci da ogni parte d’Italia, gli studenti che hanno preparato gli striscioni e i volantini, le scuole e le università per questo che è un grande atto di resistenza alla logica della guerra e della disumanità. Grazie dal profondo a voi giovani, coloro che avevamo condannato alle trincee della solitudine, del virtuale, dell’individualismo. Grazie per essere scesi in piazza in queste settimane a ricordarci che sotto le bombe di Gaza stava morendo anche la nostra coscienza collettiva, ferita dall’immobilismo e dalla rassegnazione”. Ferdinandi ha concluso ringraziando

Father Fortunato: 'The powerful listen to the many children on the march'

At the Perugia-Assisi peace march, for the first time, there are also many children. "The first children's peace march has an extraordinary participation beyond all expectations. If the powerful listened to the words of the little ones, we would have a better world, if they thought about the future of their children, they would press the buttons of peace and concord and not those of war and hatred," emphasises Father Enzo Fortunato, the Franciscan friar journalist taking part in the march.