Thread: Pope calls welcoming migrants a way to show brotherhood

Pope calls welcoming migrants a way to show brotherhood

By Associated Press
PUBLISHED: 12:41 BST, 14 August 2017 | UPDATED: 12:42 BST, 14 August 2017

ROME (AP) - Pope Francis is praising acceptance for migrants as a way to show brotherhood, even as Europe's welcome mat wears thin.

Francis sent a message Monday to a diocesan-organized conference in southern Italy promoting brotherhood in the Mediterranean area.

He encouraged Christians, young people and "all persons of good will to consider the presence of migrants an opportunity for human growth, encounter and dialogue" as well as an opportunity to practice charity.


Pope Francis delivers his blessing from his studio's window overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican,
Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)


In the last few years, Italy has taken on hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers, many of them economic migrants, who were rescued at sea from smugglers' boats setting out from Libya's coast. Several European countries have refused to follow EU-assigned quotas to distribute the migrants. Many Italian politicians acknowledge Italy's patience for caring for migrants is fraying.

Pope calls welcoming migrants a way to show brotherhood

Says the man who lives behind MASSIVE brick walls.

The POPE can pay for and go diversify THEIR countries...get it on!!!

Take down YOUR wall and put your money where your mouth is...go help them on their soil.

Sell all that art in the Vatican and help these people remain in their own homes.

While you are at it, bring a bunch of the already arrived migrants to live in the Vatican.