For me it is an interesting coincidence that approaching the celebration of the Fatima message we got this news from the Vatican representative's intervention at the UN:

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Funneling resources toward military spending rather than providing basic health care to all citizens is making an already "sad landscape" even bleaker, a top Vatican official told the U.N. General Assembly. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Vatican nuncio to the United Nations, said Oct. 9 that the world community "seems to have been losing focus on the need to ensure the right to basic health care for all," although studies have shown even simple medical prevention can effectively and successfully improve the health and stability of society. The Vatican released a copy of his text Oct. 10. Archbishop Migliore said that "primary care is often neglected or replaced by more selective and even culturally divisive methods of health care." He said that "a saner health policy" would cover basic health care needs for all members of society and would help nations achieve some of the Millennium Development Goals, which include setting targets for reducing child mortality, improving maternal health and combating deadly diseases worldwide by 2015.

The Vatican news service presented the news in the following way:

ARCHBISHOP MIGLIORE: U.N. PEACE-BUILDING COMMISSION

VATICAN CITY, OCT 11, 2007 (VIS) - Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Holy See permanent observer to the United Nations in New York, yesterday addressed the 62nd Session of the U.N. General Assembly which is deliberating upon the theme of the "Peace-building Commission (PBC)."

"The Holy See," said the archbishop speaking English, "warmly welcomed the creation of the PBC, as a response to the need for greater coherence and coordination of international peace-building efforts in post-conflict situations."

In closing, he encouraged the PBC to continue "in the pursuit of its challenging task of helping to rebuild individual lives and entire countries ravaged by war. It shall have fully achieved this task when development, peace and security and human rights will finally be interlinked and mutually re- enforcing in a country which has known the devastation of armed conflict."

The entire text of the speech is accesible here:

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/secretariat_state/2007/documents/rc_seg-st_... 

Let us pray with faith and insistence for the peace - and the world will change for a better place.