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Monday 17 June 2024 at 8:00 pm there will be a march entitled “We don’t want you!” in the municipalities of Casal di Principe, San Cipriano d’Aversa and Casapesenna to express the dissent of the people and the institutions towards organized crime following the gun explosions that occurred in recent days in the area. The Diocese of Aversa, in a press release issued today, announced its participation in the march.
The procession will start from Piazza Petrillo in Casapesenna, will cross the streets of the city, via Roma di San Cipriano d’Aversa and will end in the market square in Casal di Principe. Everyone is invited to join the event.
Below is the note from the Diocese of Aversa:
The parish priests and priests of the Forania of Casal di Principe, together with the Bishop of the Diocese of Aversa, accepting the invitation of the Mayors of Casal di Principe, San Cipriano d’Aversa and Casapesenna, join the event which, in the form of march, will affect the aforementioned municipalities on 17 June 2024.
The ecclesial participation in this event builds on what had already been written by the Priests of the same pastoral area at Christmas 1991, when with Don Peppino Diana they wanted to speak to the Christian and civil community of the area. As then, and only “For the love of my people”, the Christian community still presents today the heartfelt cry: “We are worried”:
· worried because after years of relative tranquility, menacing gunshots have once again resounded in the streets of our towns;
· concerned about the development of a terrible increase in drug use and dealing;
· still worried about the absurd proliferation of suffocating forms of usury and extortion threats;
· concerned about detecting a lack of consideration for values such as honesty, justice, truth and about the limited possibility of truly decent work for young people.
In the face of these and other consequent concerns, as Christians and pastors of the Church of Christ, in dialogue with civil institutions, we want to solicit the attention and sensitivity of all citizens so that we do not fall back into the dramatic errors, the sins that in the past decades have bloodied and polluted this wonderful land of ours.
We would like to point out that if we are strongly interested in expressing our dissent to those who would like to return to imposing an overbearing dominion over the city, we would never want to shout at someone an angry rejection of their presence, but rather offer them a heartfelt invitation to change their lifestyle. For this reason we feel we want to share with everyone the words that the Holy Father Francis addressed to our community on March 19, 2024, encouraging us to cultivate: “patiently the seed of justice and the dream of human and social development for your land”.
