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xiv world where things are heading—not to create alarm but to pre- pare them to think about how the world has arrived in this state of being and how it can avert disaster and chart a course to peace and security for all the people that inhabit this global village. He has forthrightly proclaimed that the only way to insure peace is for the world to adopt the ways of humility and justice and to humbly, submissively, turn to God; for man to become humane; for the strong to treat the weak with dignity and respect and justice and for the weak and poor to also to show gratitude and adopt the ways of truth and righteousness and for all to turn to their Creator in utter humility and total sincerity. Again and again he has reminded one and all that the way back from the brink of disaster is for nations to make justice an absolute requirement of their dealings with each other. Even if there is enmity between them they need to still observe justice because history has taught us that this is the only way to eliminate all traces of future hatreds and thus build a lasting peace. His Holiness has travelled widely to address in person the people in charge of running the world’s greatest nations in- cluding historic addresses at the Capitol Hill in Washington D. C. , Houses of Parliament in London, Military Headquarters, Germany, European Parliament Brussels and New Zealand National Parliament. These events were attended by leading con- gressmen, members of parliament, ambassadors, NGO leaders, religious leaders, professors, policy advisors and journalists. His Holiness clearly said to them that the requirements of justice are only fulfilled when all parties and all people are treated equally and warned of a spiralling world crisis that is the natural outcome