Not exact matches
Instead of despairing she came to a deeper understanding of God and humanity; instead of blaming, she expressed a strong sense of
human responsibility for the
suffering she
witnessed: nothing can be changed in the world until we change ourselves.
«The whole gospel for the whole person and the whole world» means that we can not leave any area of
human life and
suffering without the
witness of hope.
There's too much beauty in the world to lose hope; too many people searching for something more than themselves; too many people who comfort the
suffering; too many people who serve the poor; too many people who seek and teach the truth; too much history that
witnesses, again and again, to the mercy of God, incarnate in the course of
human affairs.
It is hard to be a
witness to the
suffering of our fellow
humans, especially children, and not know how to address it.
It's hard to bear
witness to the
suffering of our fellow
humans, especially children, and not know how to address it.
This has brought me to
witness first - hand some of the often unthinkable
suffering rural villagers face (environmental and otherwise), as well as poignant moments of
human dignity, kindness and resilience.
Just recently, late November 2013, we have
witnessed a presidential fraud in Honduras, which comes to legitimize a previous coup d'etat, and all the
human rights violations and violence being
suffered by the peoples of Honduras, in particular against the first nations and Garifuna peoples, and in favor of the rule of organized crime in the region.
Students then bear
witness to the
human suffering of the Holocaust and examine the range of responses from individuals and nations to the genocidal mass murder of the Nazi regime.
I have seen the dead look in the eyes of little girls forced to work in conditions no
human being, much less a child should be allowed to work in, and I have had my heart broken again and again from being
witness to such
suffering.
Galerie Lelong will present the internationally renowned artist Alfredo Jaar and his provocative work The Sound of Silence, a sculpture - and - film installation that addresses difficult questions about the
human response to the
suffering of others, the responsibilities of the
witness, and the ownership of images that serve as
witness in the media.