Blessed john paul 2 biography of mahatma
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[Yogananda Site: At the time of his first visit to India (1986), Pope John Paul II was engaged in liberating his own country Poland from communism through a nonviolent movement called Solidarnsk (Solidarity) that was patterned on Gandhi’s Satyagraha (Truth-force) and ahimsa/non-violence, with which Gandhi had liberated India from the British Empire. The liberation of Poland in 1989 was intertwined with the collapse of the Berlin Wall in Germany and the fall of communism in all Eastern Europe.]
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Gandhi has said that Jesus Christ, the Bhagavad Gita, and Tolstoy have been the greatest influences in moulding his life. . . .By his ideal conduct Gandhi…will go down through history as a great saviour who has changed the destinies not only of individuals and of India, but of other nations.
Paramahansa Yogananda, The Divine Romance
excerpts from: GANDHI: JOHN PAUL II’S ‘HERO OF HUMANITY’ – Dr. Peter Gonsalves
Karol Wojtyla, the
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India Welcome Subdued : Pope’s Call for Peace a Tribute to Mahatma
NEW DELHI — Pope John Paul II arrived in India on Saturday to the most subdued reception of any of his foreign travels and, in a series of low-key speeches, issued an eloquent call for peace in the name of Mohandas K. Gandhi.
Speaking in the idyllic garden of Raj Ghat, the cremation site and memorial to the late Indian champion of nonviolence, the pontiff said, “The peace and justice of which contemporary society has such great need will only be achieved along the path which was at the core of his teaching.
“The existence of immense arsenals of weapons of mass destruction causes a grave and justified uneasiness in our minds,” John Paul said after praying silently for five minutes at the Gandhi memorial.
The Roman Catholic pontiff recalled the Hindu leader’s belief that “the law of love governs the world. . . . Truth triumphs over untruth. . . . Love conquers hate,” and praised Mahatma Gandhi as a “hero
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Pope John Paul II and Interreligious Dialogue
Pope John Paul II and Interreligious Dialogue
Archbishop Michael L. Fitzgerald, M.Afr.
President of the pontifikal Council for Interreligious Dialogue
Total commitment to a 'dialogue of salvation'
Karol Wojtyła was elected Pope in October 1978, choosing the name John Paul II as a sign of continuity. In April of the following year he received in audience the members and consultors of the Secretariat for Non-Christians (which he was later to rename pontifikal Council for Interreligious Dialogue). He said to them:
"The late Paul VI, who founded this Secretariat, and so much of whose love, interest and inspiration was lavished on non-Christians, is no longer visibly among us, and inom am convinced that some of you wondered whether the new Pope would devote similar care and attention to the world of the non-Christian religions".
Answering his own question, John Paul II referred to his first Encyclical Redemptor Hominis, publishe