Benedict XVI has said a Japanese girl scared by the earthquake and tsunami in his native country, that he was not in vain and assured of his suffering a Muslim woman of the violence-wracked of C?te d'Ivoire of the Vatican peace efforts there.
A pre-recorded appearance at the Italian State television, the Pope responded to the seven questions submitted thousands online by Catholics and non-Catholics both the solemn day when Christians think about the crucifixion of Christ.
The unusual aspect of TV has aired before Benedict XVI presided the evening prayer service at St. Peter's Basilica and the way of the cross at the Colosseum procession at night.
Dressed in white dresses during the Q & A, Benedict sitting at a desk and spoke softly in Italian. The first question came from Elena, 7, the Japanese girl who told the Pope that many children of his age were killed in the disaster of 11 March and asked why children must be very sad.
"I also have the same questions: why you so suffer while others live in ease." Benedict said. "And we do not have the answers, but we know that Jésus suffered as you, the innocent."
Try words of comfort, the Pope said: "even if we are still sad, God is on your side."
A Muslim woman from Ivory Coast, where months of political crisis have caused deadly battles, the Pope asked: "as an Ambassador of Jesus, that advise you for our country."
Benedict told him that the Vatican did what he could and said that he asked an African cardinal to go to Ivory Coast "to try to mediate, to talk with different groups and various people to encourage a new beginning."
Another question came from young people in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, where Christians were fleeing the war and intense religious persecution.
"We Christians in Baghdad are persecuted like Jesus," the question, with a plea for advice on how to help fellow Christians reconsider their desire to emigrate. Benedict replied that he prayed daily for Christians in Iraq and that he urged them to "have faith, to be patient."
A woman whose son moyen-age has been in a vegetative state since Easter 2009 wanted to know if his soul left his body.
Beno?t assured the mother that his soul was "always present in his body".
While the Q & A session departed for Friday normal routine of the Vatican, elsewhere in the world of ancient Christian practices marked the solemn day.
In Jerusalem, Christian pilgrims filled the streets paved of the old walled city to commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus it two thousand years ago. Thousands of international visitors and Christian traced the last steps of Christ in the Via Dolorosa, or "suffering". The ends of the road to the ancient Church of the Holy Sepulchre, revered as the site of Jesus crucifixion, burial and resurrection at Easter.
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