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| UN Human Rights Award |
| Time Magazine Person of the Year |
| Blazon Peace Prize |
| Nobel Peace Prize |
Your answer was: Time Magazine Person of the Year. |
Answer: Each year the Vatican Post Office has issued a set of stamps honoring the Pontificate of Pope Francis. This is the 8th in the series. * In 2013, Time Magazine named Pope Francis the Person of the Year, a prestigious title given to the one who, “has done the most to influence the events of the year.” 2020 with Pope Francis: (Source: www.VaticanNews.va) 1. Prayer and Healing - In the times of the pandemic, the themes of “Prayer” and of the “Health Emergency” echoed throughout the Pope’s catechesis during the General Audiences of 2020. 2. Fratelli tutti - 2020 is the year of Pope Francis' third Encyclical: on 4 October, "Fratelli tutti" was published. In it the Pope indicates fraternity and social friendship as primary ways to build a better world. 3. Special Celebrations - The Mass for the first Sunday of the Word of God, instituted by the Pope in 2019; St. Peter's Square provided the setting for the Way of the Cross, written by inmates of a prison in northern Italy; On 12 April, Easter Sunday, Pope Francis presided over Mass in an almost empty St. Peter’s Basilica and pronounced the “Urbi et Orbi” before the Altar of Confession; St Peter’s Basilica, was where the Solemnity of Christ the King was celebrated on 22 November. During that ceremony, the Cross and the Marian Icon, symbols of World Youth Day, were handed over from the young people of Panama, the host country of WYD 2019, to the young people of Lisbon, the city that will host the event in 2023. 4. Reforms - Francis signed several documents: CCCLI Law on the Judicial System of Vatican City State; New Statute of the Financial Information Authority; Provisional Agreement Between the Holy See and the People's Republic of China. 5. Video Messages - During these 12 months, the Pope recorded numerous video messages, including those of 25 September and 10 December. In the first, Francis addresses the 75th General Assembly of the United Nations issuing a strong warning to the international community to end the arms race, protect the rights of migrants and rethink economic and financial systems. He also condemned abortion as an "essential humanitarian service". The second video message was addressed to participants in an online meeting organized by the Dicastery for the Promoting Integral Human Development on the humanitarian crisis in Syria and Iraq. 'PONTIFICATE OF POPE FRANCIS - 2020' 
PONTIFICATE OF POPE FRANCIS - 2020 1735-1738 (2020) |
