#HopeForPeace via #HongKong | 05.05.2025

Updated: Jul 12

At the gates of the Vatican, "HOPE FOR PEACE" met the eyes of the Cardinals, hurrying out with thoughts of the upcoming Conclave.

I was silent. But everything inside me was screaming.

Five minutes earlier, my mother called on the phone:

“They killed him! He was at zero.”

A boy from my family. On the front line. In Ukraine.

I trembled. I froze. I broke down. I cried.

I didn’t leave. I stood.

I stood in their path — not to shout, not to protest, not to appeal,

but to be a living wound before their eyes.

To carry the message from those killed on the front,

from those dying in that very moment —

and from those who still carry a living hope:

Hope for Peace.

Thank you, Galileo Cheng, for capturing this moment —

for showing what the Cardinals saw before the Conclave.

The photo was published in Hong Kong by @the_collectivehk —

a voice against censorship.

Caption under the image:

一名女子拿著HOPE FOR PEACE 的標語向樞機們展示

/A woman holds a "HOPE FOR PEACE" sign and shows it to the cardinals/

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