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Title: Pope: Rights of migrants trump national security concerns
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AP
URL Source: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie ... AULT&CTIME=2017-08-21-06-26-22
Published: Aug 21, 2017
Author: NICOLE WINFIELD
Post Date: 2017-08-21 07:40:38 by IbJensen
Keywords: None
Views: 4491
Comments: 22
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis urged countries on Monday to greatly improve their welcome to migrants and stop any collective expulsions, saying migrants' dignity and right to protection trumps national security concerns. Francis' politically pointed message was made in view of the Catholic Church's 2018 world refugee day, celebrated Jan. 14. It comes amid mounting anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe following waves of migrant arrivals and Islamic extremist attacks. In the message, Francis demanded governments welcome, protect, promote and integrate migrants, saying Jesus' message of love is rooted in welcoming the "rejected strangers of every age." He demanded an increased and simplified process of granting humanitarian and temporary visas and rejected arbitrary and collective expulsions as "unsuitable." He said the principle of ensuring each person's dignity "obliges us to always prioritize personal safety over national security." Francis has made refugees a priority of his pontificate, making his first trip outside Rome in 2013 to the island of Lampedusa, ground zero in Europe's migration crisis. He has repeatedly spoken out for migrants' rights, demanded countries build "bridges not walls," and personally brought a dozen Syrian refugees back to Rome with him when he visited a Greek refugee camp in 2016. Ignoring critics who say his calls are unrealistic and naive, Francis insisted in the new message that border guards must be trained to protect migrants and that each new arrival, regardless of legal status, must be guaranteed access to basic services beyond basic health care. That extends to guaranteeing access to consulates, the justice system and the ability to open a bank account and survive financially, he said. Unaccompanied minors, he said, require even greater protection, including guaranteeing them citizenship and access to schooling, as well as foster programs rather than detention centers. He called for policies that support family reunification, employment opportunities and accelerated citizenship procedures to improve migrants' abilities to integrate in their new countries. Acknowledging the tallness of the order, Francis said the church would do its part. But he said all people of good will, Christian and not, "are called to respond to the many challenges of contemporary migration with generosity, promptness, wisdom and foresight, each according to their own abilities." Poster Comment: Is this imitation, phony pope like all since Pope Piux XII yet another anti-Christ? It a certainty that, like those others since Vatican II he's not a Roman Catholic. Any acts by this dangerous communist, NWO type, should be ignored as his inspiration isn't Jesus Christ: it's Satan.
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#3. To: IbJensen (#0)
So what he is doing is doing a Merkel and inviting these people in because he feels for them, Great pity he doesn't feel more for the circumstances that drove them out of their home countries, that is the work of Satan, and they believe the lie, that there is a better life in a place where they are welcome. Italy is flooded with "migrants", he doesn't even call them refugees. Perhaps he thinks these migrants will convert and fuel his declining church. If he wants to feed them, to cloth them to accommodate them then he should use the wealth of the church to do so on church property. Better still he should use the wealth of the church to improve circumstances in the home countries. I'm betting the thought hasn't crossed his mind
The Sedevacantists are 100% right! There has been no legitimate pope since Pius XII and a completely new religion invented after Vatican II.
The Vatican loyalists will always say that the pope with his magical superpowers of loosing and binding which God is forced to adhere to, no matter what, means that the pope can in fact establish an entirely new religion whenever he wants. And God will obey the pope. Of course, we ornery Prots will point out that this is classic popery, perhaps verging into outright sarcasm.
#11. To: Tooconservative (#10)
What you are suggesting is the Pope has more power than God and is infact God ok let's see him crucified and resurrected
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestAny acts by this dangerous communist, NWO type, should be ignored as his inspiration isn't Jesus Christ: it's Satan.
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#10. To: IbJensen, redleghunter (#9)
The Sedevacantists are 100% right! There has been no legitimate pope since Pius XII and a completely new religion invented after Vatican II.
Replies to Comment # 10. Of course, we ornery Prots will point out that this is classic popery, perhaps verging into outright sarcasm.
#18. To: Tooconservative (#10)
Of course, we ornery Prots will point out that this is classic popery, perhaps verging into outright sarcasm.
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