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his respect forChristian churches not in full communionwith the Catholic Church,and furtherexpressed his esteem \"for all followersof Islam living in Africa.\"  \nQUOTATIONS FROM POPE PAUL VI  \n# Message to Africans\n\nTo A Crowd in St.Peter's Square  \nPope Paul VI has sent an 8,500-wordmessage to Africa,encouraging it on theroad to material prosperity and at thesame time urging it to hold fast to itsbest traditions.  \nPope Paul VI said that he is \"painedto see that the offers of negotiation areturned down and that the atrocioushardships of war are growing tragicallyworse.\"  \nHe gave voice to hope for “an ef-fective dialogue”with Moslems and toa wish \"that where Moslems and Chris-tians live as neighbors,mutual respectwill be constantly present in sociallife.\"  \nHe said that Africa's moral and re-ligious heritage is a providential founda-tion for building a \"new society inChrist.\"  \nPope Paul revealed that in his longconvalescence his thoughts turned oftento the world's crisis areas of Vietnam,Cyprus and the Middle East.  \nBut he deplored racism,the pitting ofone racial group against another and aninterracial violence that \"assumes almostthe proportions of genocide.\"  \nHe assured his listeners that,althoughhis convalescence \"still imposes on us acertain isolation,\"he felt \"closer thanever\"to his sons.  \n\"Most keenly present to us is thefate of peace in the world,which wewatch with intense emotion and sym-pathy.We always think of the painfulareas of human relations,which shouldalways be brotherly.  \n\"We think of Vietnam,and we arepained to see that the offers of negotia-tion are turned down and that theatrocious hardships of war are growingtragically worse.  \n\"We think of the Middle East,towhich religious as well as human tiesbind us happily.  \n\"We think of the situation in Cyprus,that Cyprus where St.Paul began hisuniversal missionary apostolate.  \n\"We think of the world,still farfrom a solid and sure peace.Still,weare convinced that peace is the fruitof moral strength,humane and good,notso much of force of arms and of con-flicting interests.It is a gift of strongand courageous love.Only Christ onhigh can grant it to us.\"  \nSpeaking of African development,hesaid that the dignity of peoples receiv-ing aid \"must be respected absolutely.\"  \nHe singled out education and agricul-ture as the principal problems to bedealt with along the road to develop-ment in Africa.  \nThe second half of the document con-sisted of messages to various componentsof the African society:clergy,rulers,families,women and young people.  \nOfficially the document was entitled\"A Message of His Holiness PopePaul VI to the Sacred Hierarchy and toAll the Peoples of Africa for the Pro-motion of the Religious,Civil and SocialWelfare of Their Continent.\"  \nPope Paul recalled his visit to Africaat the very beginning of his message.He said he had\"witnessed at closequarters the beginnings of Christianlife in those countries,the people’seagerness to learn,their desire for re-newal and their anxiety to find a solu-tion to the complex problems arisingfrom their newly attained political in-dependence.\"  \nHe paid tribute to the orderliness andpeacefulness with which Africa's newlyindependent countries achieved theirfreedom,saying that it did honor bothto the governing and the governed.  \nWhile lamenting the violence thatstill has the upper hand in somecountries,he pointed out that such asituation does not justify a wholesalecondemnation of a nation or continent.  \nSpeaking of the spiritual life ofAfricans,he said \"the constant andgeneral foundation of African traditionis the spiritual view of life.Here wehave more than the so-called 'animistic'concept,in the sense given to this termin the history of religions at the end ofthe last century.We have a deeper,broader and more universal conceptwhich considers all living beings andvisible nature itself as linked 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