The United Nations Department of Global Communications (DGC) promotes global awareness and paintings of the United Nations through its network paintings of United Nations Information Centres (UNICs) around the world. The United Nations Information Centre in Rio de Janeiro interacts with local audiences in Brazil.
Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Christ the Redeemer lit up with the names of COVID-19 patients in an online rite called “For Every Life” that paid tribute to the 60,000 sick who died in Brazil and the 500,000 who died worldwide. Nearly 87,000 Brazilians listened to messages of hope and solidarity combined with music and prayers during a live broadcast on social media. He declared the loss of families and the selfless paintings of physical care staff and others helping the country during the pandemic.
“For Cada Vida it is much more than an event, it is an exclusive opportunity to break with our routine, interrupted by COVID-19, so that together we reflect, reflect, pray and renew our commitment to care for others. We enter into the love of Christ, celebrating religion in Him who, with open arms, welcomes our fears and uncertainties. The pandemic will pass,” said Father Patriky Samuel Batista, crusade executive secretary of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB).
Brazilian actress Cris Vianna hosted the rite on July 1. It was streamed on CNBB’s YouTube and Facebook, Caritas’ Facebook and Brazilian singer Alcione’s official YouTube channel.
He delivered a blessing from Pope Francis, “Brazil is missing, I give an apostolic blessing asking Our Lady of the Conception Aparecida to intercede for all of us. “
Brazilian Cardinal Dom Orani João Tempesta led the prayers, commenting: “This is an occasion when we are not only those who left, but we also see those who stayed. Cheer up, let’s move on. “
With the event, CNBB, Cáritas Brasileira and Verified intended to pay tribute to each life, in addition to humanizing this critical moment that the world is going through, highlighting the lives lost, which tend to be only statistics due to the greater number of daily deaths.
“For Every Life” supported through the Verified Project, a global initiative of the United Nations, which seeks to flood communication channels with verified data transmitted through the UN involving the issues of science, solidarity and solutions, thus counteracting the infodemic of disdata in the midst of this pandemic that plagues the world.
Closing the rite with a musical performance, singer Alcione encouraged listeners: “I left my forties for an intelligent cause. We will have to join forces at this moment that the global is going through. Together we are stronger. “
The Manguinhos Ballet, named after its favela in Rio de Janeiro, returns to the level after a long absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It has as interpreters 250 young people and adolescents from the favela. The ballet organization provides social assistance in a network where poverty, hunger and teenage pregnancy are ongoing problems.
The pandemic has put many other people to the test, and news hounds are no exception. The coronavirus has waged war not only against the lives and well-being of others, but has also generated countless deceptions and clinical lies.
The pandemic has shown how vital it is that the right of access to data is reliable and that reliable and accurate data is freely available for government and citizen decision-making – a win-win situation.