On this day, December 22, 1989 the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Berlin was reopened. It heralded the coming together of millions of Germans after years of division and disharmony.
On the same day in Romania the government of Nicolae Ceaușecu was overthrown.
The following year, 1990 on the same date, December 22 Lech Walęsa was elected president of Poland.
The world was full of hope. Three decades later we are in a different space; a world full of fear and uncertainty.
Pope Leo keeps calling on us to be people of peace, the importance of reconciling with each other.
On his visit to Türkiye he used the bridge in Istanbul to stress the importance of us all building bridges and attempting to listen to the other.
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