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Domani, 7 luglio, i Capi di Stato e di governo dei Paesi membri del G8, insieme ad altri leaders del mondo, si riuniranno in Giappone per il loro vertice annuale.



In questi giorni, si sono alzate numerose voci – tra cui quelle dei Presidenti delle Conferenze Episcopali delle citate Nazioni – per chiedere che si realizzino gli impegni assunti nei precedenti appuntamenti del G8 e si adottino coraggiosamente tutte le misure necessarie per vincere i flagelli della povertà estrema, della fame, delle malattie, dell’analfabetismo, che colpiscono ancora tanta parte dell’umanità. Mi unisco anch’io a questo pressante appello alla solidarietà! Mi rivolgo quindi ai partecipanti all’incontro di Hokkaido-Toyako, affinché al centro delle loro deliberazioni mettano i bisogni delle popolazioni più deboli e più povere, la cui vulnerabilità è oggi accresciuta a causa delle speculazioni e delle turbolenze finanziarie e dei loro effetti perversi sui prezzi degli alimenti e dell’energia. Auspico che generosità e lungimiranza aiutino a prendere decisioni atte a rilanciare un equo processo di sviluppo integrale, a salvaguardia della dignità umana.

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La Santa Sede
Palazzo Apostolico di Castel Gandolfo
ANGELUS
Domenica, 6 luglio 2008

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Summit of G8

A little explaination for my not italian speaking friends... ;-))))

The statue represents Giotto, the famous Florence painter; in italian you can read "G8" as "GI-OTTO" (and not "g-eight" or worst "Greater Eight"!!!!).
Then, having only my 55-200 that evening, and being the Vicchio place small, I could shoot only the higher parts of the statue and the church; the Summit, in effect... :-)))))))))

The colours are real, not photoshopped. There was a feast in the town and various coloured spots lightened the statues and the buildings.

Uhm....finish to talk, Firenzesca?
Finish.
End of the Summit.

Originally uploaded by Firenzesca.
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"Kumbaya" (also spelled Kum Ba Yah) is a song claimed to have been composed by Reverend Marvin V. Frey (1918 – 1992) in the 1930s in Portland, Oregon.
Originally titled "Come By Here", it first appeared in "Revival Choruses of Marvin V. Frey", a lyric sheet printed in Portland in 1939. In 1946, the song returned from Africa with a missionary family, who toured America singing the song with its now world famous Angolan text "Kum Ba Yah".
There is debate about the truth of Frey's authorship claim; recent research has found that sometime between 1922 and 1931, members of an organization called the Society for the Preservation of Spirituals collected a song from the South Carolina coast. Come By Yuh, as they called it, was sung in Gullah, the Creole dialect spoken by the former slaves living on the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. Also, there is another version which was preserved on a wax cylinder in May 1936 by Robert Winslow Gordon, founder of what became the American Folklife Center. Gordon discovered a woman named Ethel Best singing Come By Here with a group in Raiford, Florida. Various opinions on the issue can be found here. The song enjoyed newfound popularity during the folk revival of the 1960s, largely due to Joan Baez's 1962 recording of the song, and became associated with the Civil Rights Movement of that decade. It is a standard campfire song in Scouting, YMCA, the Indian Guides, and others. It was also commonly used in Catholic "folk" masses of the 1970's.




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