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--July 16-- When we ask ourselves what are the most crucial issues facing humankind in the 21st century, it is clear that a central challenge will be to establish on a global scale of robust philospohy of reverencefor life, a philospohy that is consistently and clearly focused on the human being. This is the only certain means of breaking free of the chained spirals of killing, slaughter and hatred that bind us. Only in this way can we create a world lit by the inherent diginity of all people, a world in which all people may equally savour the fruits of happiness and peace.