Man's Call To Salvation

Pope John XXIII wrote a very important encyclical entitled Peace on Earth. In this encyclical, Pope John summarized Jesus' teachings about God's Kingdom to help us know that human beings have rights. When these rights are being violated, the Kingdom of God is failing.
Below are the human rights taught in the encyclical.
These rights are gifts from our loving Father.

1. The right to life and a decent standard of living.
2. The right to respect and to a good reputation.
3. The right to search for and express truth.
4. The right to pursue art and culture.
5. The right to be informed truthfully about events.
6. The right to education and training.
7. The right to worship according to one's conscience.
8. The right to choose freely a state of life.
9. The right to work and work without force.
10. The right to good working conditions.
11. The right to just wages for one's work.
12. The right to private property.
13. The right to associate with other people.
14. The right to move about freely.
15. The right to take active part in public affairs.
16. The right to legal protection for one's rights.

These rights belong to all of us. We can start putting them into action in our homes, in our classroom and in our communities. We can begin doing them through the way we treat our family, classmates, neighbors and even people we don't know.