This Is Why We Pray

Sacred art from a surveillance camera. Palermo.

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Nei conflitti di oggi, più del novanta per cento delle vittime sono civili. Migliaia di donne, di bambini, di uomini inermi sono uccisi ogni anno nel mondo. Molti di più sono i feriti e i mutilati. [...] Fin dall'inizio, le attività umanitarie di Emergency si sono concentrate in particolare sul trattamento e sulla riabilitazione delle vittime di mine antiuomo, ordigni disumani dei quali l'Italia è stata tra i maggiori produttori. Emergency si è impegnata per anni a far sì che il nostro paese mettesse al bando queste armi. Il 22 ottobre 1997 il governo italiano ha approvato la legge n. 374 che impedisce la produzione e il commercio delle mine antiuomo. Ma i 110 milioni di ordigni disseminati in 67 paesi continueranno a ferire, mutilare, uccidere. #pappagalliverdi #thisiswhywepray https://www.instagram.com/p/CTImb_vK_pZ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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. Si può sperare Che il mondo torni a quote più normali Che possa contemplare il cielo e i fiori Che non si parli più di dittature #thisiswhywepray https://www.instagram.com/p/CPLSTm6lJDi/?utm_medium=tumblr

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. So come along, it wont be long 'Til we return happy Shut your eyes, there are no lies In this world we call sleep Let's desert this day of work Tomorrow we'll be free Let's not fight, I'm tired, can't we just sleep tonight? Don't turn away, it's just there's nothing left here to say Turn around, I know we're lost but soon we'll be found (I know we're lost but soon we'll be found) #thisiswhywepray https://www.instagram.com/p/CCK_xuoKrDP/?igshid=1dkg8lz2rssj0

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. A drowning sorrow floods the deepest grief, how long now? Until the weather change condemns belief, how long now? When the night watchman lets in the thief. What's wrong now? The saints are coming, the saints are coming. I say no matter how I try, I realise there's no reply. #thisiswhywepray (at Palermo, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CByxateqL-5/?igshid=qvmldq9utd3n

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Il Santo che mancava nel pantheon murale palermitano: San Remo, origini leggendarie, odore di santità tra fiori e canzonette, pizza e mandolino. Un omaggio alla grande satira in un Bel Paese devoto a idoli posticci e falsi dei. #valux #thisiswhywepray https://www.instagram.com/p/B7gHu8vijQT/?igshid=4qdwg7wdxi4m

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The saints are coming. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7dhjPNie1y/?igshid=ztjqdotdj0lh

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The selfish, they're all standing in line Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time Me, I figure as each breath goes by I only own my mind North is to south what the clock is to time There's east and there's west and there's everywhere life I know I was born and I know that I'll die The in between is mine I am mine And the feeling it gets left behind All the innocence lost at one time Significant behind the eyes There's no need to hide We're safe tonight The ocean is full 'cause everyone's crying The full moon is looking for friends at high tide The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied I only know my mind I am mine And the meaning it gets left behind All the innocence lost at one time Significance between the eyes There's no need to hide We're safe tonight What And the feelings that gets left behind All the innocent broken with lies Significance, between the lines (We may need to hide) And the meanings that get left behind All the innocents lost at one time We're all different behind the eyes There's no need to hide https://www.instagram.com/p/B0_iw-jlWGB/?igshid=82kpj8az1w6z

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. We rescued these migrants twice – from shipwreck and from the risk to be captured and taken back to suffer again the tortures and horrors from which they were fleeing. @mediterranearescue #thisiswhywepray (at Palermo, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv1WHZyCmHO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pgixj7uy6129

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. What about animals slaughtered for our consumption? Who among us would be able to continue eating pork chops after visiting a factory farm in which pigs are half-blind and cannot even properly walk, but are just fattened to be killed? And what about, say, torture and suffering of millions we know about, but choose to ignore? Imagine the effect of having to watch a snuff movie portraying what goes on thousands of times a day around the world: brutal acts of torture, the picking out of eyes, the crushing of testicles -the list cannot bear recounting. Would the watcher be able to continue going on as usual? Yes, but only if he or she were able somehow to forget -in an act which suspended symbolic efficiency -what had been witnessed. This forgetting entails a gesture of what is called fetishist disavowal: "I know it, but I don't want to know that I know, so I don't know." I know it, but I refuse to fully assume the consequences of this knowledge, so that I can continue acting as if I don't know it. #thisiswhywepray https://www.instagram.com/p/ButX3LdiQT9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1szmse1boctfu

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. “There is no rationality in the Nazi hatred: it is hate that is not in us, it is outside of man.. We cannot understand it, but we must understand from where it springs, and we must be on our guard. If understanding is impossible, knowing is imperative, because what happened could happen again. Consciences can be seduced and obscured again - even our consciences. For this reason, it is everyone duty to reflect on what happened. Everybody must know, or remember, that when Hitler and Mussolini spoke in public, they were believed, applauded, admired, adored like gods. They were "charismatic leaders" ; they possessed a secret power of seduction that did not proceed from the soundness of things they said but from the suggestive way in which they said them, from their eloquence, from their histrionic art, perhaps instinctive, perhaps patiently learned and practised. The ideas they proclaimed were not always the same and were, in general, aberrant or silly or cruel. And yet they were acclaimed with hosannas and followed to the death by millions of the faithful.“ Primo Levi, Is this a man. #thisiswhywepray https://www.instagram.com/p/ButT0iZgA6-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8qy9pdow1zm3

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. To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. #thisiswhywepray https://www.instagram.com/p/BsGoCMUC8WU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1w598b7q0x5w4

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. I find it kind of funny. I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had. #thisiswhywepray https://www.instagram.com/p/BsGkgucCesq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bfmfxyyvhan1

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. All for freedom and for pleasure nothing ever last forever. #thisiswhywepray https://www.instagram.com/p/BsGkJAkCZLq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fyl34h1yl87m

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. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. #thisiswhywepray https://www.instagram.com/p/Br4xq_cCyf1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=oeyg39r2wkur

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. #thisiswhywepray https://www.instagram.com/p/Br4xHeCCDud/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ncncjerizsa9

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We are all special cases. #thisiswhywepray https://www.instagram.com/p/BrawzJxFZzU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mahnmb5op0nl

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Be in the world but not of the world. #thisiswhywepray https://www.instagram.com/p/BrFIF0WF0mu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ckomtove5fv9