Keeping in line with the growing popularity of the TED talks, Francis's address bore all the hallmarks of a conventional TED speech beginning with a personal narrative and then moving on to wider ideas from them. He added: "We have so much to do, and we must do it together". These Christian heroes also teach people that love can conquer violence, war, and bullying and eventually give birth to peace.
Pope Francis delivered an 18-minute TED talk tonight before an audience of 1,800 high-powered attendees gathered in Vancouver, Canada.
"So there was a lot of explaining to do", Bruno Giussani, TED's global curator, said in a statement.
Pope Francis embraced a future in which science benefits everyone in a surprise video address from the Vatican to the 2017 TED Conference being held in Vancouver. Essentially, he told the academics and innovators, scientists and techies, there is no "you", without an "us".
Second, while it would be an honor to meet any Bishop or Cardinal, and certainly to meet any Pope; I feel that Pope Francis is truly extraordinary, as I believe he is successfully transitioning the Church into the 21st Century and the Modern World.
Amidst all the suffering in the world, Pope Francis said Christians are called to affirm the value of life.
"Everyone's existence is deeply tied to that of others: life is not time merely passing by, life is about interactions".
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The persecution of Christians all over the world is caused by the devil who stirs people against the Christian faith, Pope Francis said during a prayer service in Rome over the weekend. "I could have very well ended up among today's "discarded" people". "I myself was born in a family of migrants", he said.
The pope also called for a "revolution of tenderness", repeating a phrase he has used often in his pontificate.
A good preacher challenges his congregation, subtly criticizing the status quo, while urging Christians to get in line with the gospel.
The video shows Pope Francis expressing his excitement to visit the land "where Patriarchs and Prophets lived", and wishes to bring strength and comfort to the Christian community.
"Our world, torn by blind violence, which has also afflicted the heart of your dear land, needs peace, love and mercy; it needs workers for peace, free and liberating people, courageous people able to learn from the past to build a future without closing themselves up in prejudices; it needs builders of bridges of peace, dialogue, brotherhood, justice, and humanity", he said.
The problem, he described, is the world's "techno-economic systems", which, "without even realizing it, are putting products at their core, instead of people".
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