Twenty-five years ago, the world looked to the Gdansk Shipyard where Poles struggled for their rights and freedoms,

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.

This World Youth Day shows that Catholics are not a minority but come from all around the world,

[IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler and other senior officials provided similar visions -- a world free of debt, poverty, hunger and disease, while full of economic partnership.] I am aware of the critical debate about globalization, and many questions have to be of concern to all of us, ... But I also want to be clear: if the IMF did not exist already, this would be the time to invent it.

After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war.

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.