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“At Christmas, families usually gather and celebrate together around a set table, but in some, there will be an empty place in their hearts.” In his message for the imminent festivities, Fr Pier Luigi Maccalli expressed his concern for the people kept hostages in Sahel.Fr Maccalli himself was kidnapped and imprisoned in the North Africa region from September 17, 2018, to October 8, 2020.
On the occasion of the forthcoming Christmas celebrations, Fr Maccalli's thoughts"are with the ten hostages in the Sahel, who will spend another holiday away from home." “I cannot help but feel solidarity with the families of all the hostages of the Sahel, and this year my prayer before the crib is for them: may there be peace and liberation for them and for the Sahel.”on August 8, 2021, Fr Maccalli recalled some of the biggest challenges he experienced while in captivity. One out of many, loneliness.
“The thing that hurt the most was the feeling of being forgotten by everyone. Coming back home made me discover that there were a lot of people who, nevertheless, prayed and hoped for this deliverance.”Prayer is, according to Fr Maccalli, “a valuable aid for people of faith. It is crucial to make hostages feel they have not been forgotten even when they come back. When I was freed, I saw the ‘river of prayer’ that accompanied my two years of captivity.
Fr Maccalli stressed the importance for hostages to receive “a signal, a photograph. A sign that says, 'the family, the world will not forget you'. This is a great help for those who experience loneliness.”
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