Pope Francis has donated 35 ventilators in recent weeks to the countries most affected by the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic
Pope Francis donates 35 ventilators to countries most affected by COVID-19.
The Office of Papal Charities announces that Pope Francis has donated 35 fans in recent weeks to the countries most affected by the Covid-19 crisis. These are, among others, the gestures of closeness that the Holy Father has made during the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.
Pope Francis donates ventilators.
Pope Francis has donated 35 ventilators in recent weeks to several countries, especially those with deficient health care systems, as a gesture of his closeness and support in their fight against the Covid-19 virus.
The Office of Papal Charities announced the Pope´s recent donations in a statement Friday. These fans, the statement said, were distributed to countries through their Apostolic Nunciatures as follows:
Four for Haiti, two for the Dominican Republic, two for Bolivia, four for Brazil, three for Colombia, two for Ecuador and three for Honduras, three were sent to Mexico, four to Venezuela, two to Cameroon, two to Bangladesh, two to Ukraine and two to Zimbabwe (through the local Bishops´ Conference).
The Holy See joins the United Arab Emirates.
Not only that, in collaboration with the Holy See in a fraternal spirit, the United Arab Emirates is delivering 50 tons of emergency medical aid to the Peruvian Amazon region which is struggling with the coronavirus pandemic.
In the early hours of Thursday morning, a plane loaded with 50 tons of humanitarian aid for the Peruvian Amazon region took off from Abu Dhabi airport in the United Arab Emirates.
The containers will land in Lima and then be transported, by land, to Iquitos, a city of 400,000 people on the banks of the Amazon River in the middle of the jungle. The aid is arriving in the Amazon as Covid-19 coronavirus infections increase throughout Latin America, putting millions of vulnerable people at risk.
The Vatican and the United Arab Emirates
This award is the result of collaboration between the United Arab Emirates and the Pontifical Foundation for Gravissimum Educationis. It contains materials to contain the spread of the pandemic, medical oxygen and food to be received and distributed by the local Churches to health and educational facilities and families in need.
Bishop Guy-Réal Thivierge is the General Secretary of the Gravissimum Educationis Foundation. He told Vatican News that the initiative stems from collaboration between the Holy See and the United Arab Emirates following the Pope´s historic visit to Abu Dhabi in 2019.
Bishop Thivierge explained that the initiative of solidarity and collaboration has its seeds in the context of that of Pope Francis to the United Arab Emirates, and in the "wonderful document on human brotherhood" signed on that occasion.
The historic document signed by Pope Francis and Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, on 4 February 2019, in the words of Pope Francis, writes "a new page in the dialogue between religions and people of good will" by focusing on how different religions can live peacefully in the same world, in a spirit of universal kinship.
Thivierge said that after Pope Francis´ visit to Abu Dhabi, the Gravissimum Foundation he heads began collaborating and exchanging ideas with the authorities of the United Arab Emirates and in particular with the Minister of Education.
The coronavirus pandemic thwarted a seminar that was on the pipelines, so he said it was decided to launch "a specific aid and assistance project in the context of Covid-19".
Working together for the end of the coronavirus.
"This project is a concrete help for the Amazon, but it is also a project where Christians and Muslims are learning to work together, to serve together and to build a new world together," he said.
He explained that the parties intend to do so not from an exclusively intellectual perspective (which is also very important, however), "but also from a very concrete perspective in which we have to share, and agree and collaborate in a very, very concrete way.
"So this is the originality of the project," Thivierge explained, adding that at the heart of it is the fact that emergency aid is being brought to Peru, taking into account that there are other dimensions to be developed as well.
For example, he said, teacher training and the need to address basic problems in local schools and universities.
Basically, he added, "we are trying to stimulate a new way of working from an inter-religious perspective", without forgetting that we are involved in education:
"The objective is not interreligious dialogue as such, but more specifically how we can work together and build something together, being Christians and Muslims and other religious congregations.
Qriswell Quero, Venezuelan, faithful husband and father of a family. Electronic engineer and missionary of the faith. Committed to the proclamation of the Gospel. Solid believer that there are always new beginnings. Whoever has God has nothing to stop him.
