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Title: Refugees are God's children, Pope says in wake of Paris attacks
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Vatican City
URL Source: http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/Vatican.php?id=12919
Published: Nov 19, 2015
Author: Ann Schneible
Post Date: 2015-11-19 09:38:10 by Don
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Views: 3359
Comments: 33
Refugees are God's children, Pope says in wake of Paris attacks By Ann Schneible Vatican City, Nov 17, 2015 / 05:01 am (EWTN News/CNA) Amid questions over whether European nations will reevaluate their migrant policies in the wake of Friday's deadly attacks in Paris, Pope Francis offered a reminder over the weekend that refugees are more than statistics: they are children of God, each with his or her own inherent dignity. “Behind these statistics are people, each of them with a name, a face, a story, an inalienable dignity which is theirs as a child of God,” the Pope said Saturday at an audience marking the 35th anniversary of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS). In line with the hopes of JRS founder, Fr. Pedro Arrupe S.J., the pontiff said the refugee service should “meet both the human and the spiritual needs of refugees, not only their immediate need of food and shelter, but also their need to see their human dignity respected, to be listened to and comforted.” Pope Francis made these remarks one day after 129 people were slaughtered and more than 300 wounded in Paris by more than half a dozen Islamic militants. Due to a Syrian passport found at the scene of the attacks, authorities believe at least one of the terrorists had passed through Greece, an entry point for many of the thousands of refugees into the continent, the AFP reports. Meanwhile, an Algerian asylum seeker has been detained in Germany in connection to the attacks, according to the AP. These developments come after months of escalating security concerns that terrorists are crossing into Europe alongside innocent migrants. Until now, the EU has been working on policies to accommodate the refugees, enacting a quota policy earlier this year to disseminate the migrants across the continent. In the wake of the Nov. 13 attacks there is speculation over whether nations will reevaluate their own refugee policies. During Saturday's audience with JRS, the Pope acknowledged the mass increase in the number of refugees fleeing Africa, Asia, and the Middle East in what has become largest-scale exodus since World War II. He lauded JRS's presence in conflict and post-conflict regions, recalling the agency's mission: “to accompany, to serve and to defend the rights of refugees.” “I think especially of your groups in Syria, Afghanistan, the Central African Republic and the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where you accept men and women of different religious beliefs who share your mission,” he said. The pontiff went on to praise JRS' focus on education for migrant children, such as the planned initiative for the Year of Mercy entitled “Global Education”, with the motto “Mercy in Motion.” Education, Pope Francis said, “provides refugees with the wherewithal to progress beyond survival, to keep alive the flame of hope, to believe in the future and to make plans.” By providing education, JRS is helping “refugees to grow in self-confidence, to realize their highest inherent potential and to be able to defend their rights as individuals and communities,” the Pope added. “For children forced to emigrate, schools are places of freedom,” he said. JRS was established in 1980 by Fr. Arrupe, then superior general of the Society of Jesus and survivor of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bomb, an event in which he witnessed “the scope of that tragic exodus of refugees,” Pope Francis observed. The pontiff concluded his address by calling those working with refugees to reflect on the Holy Family, as well as Christ's words: “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” “As you persevere in this work of providing education for refugees, think of the Holy Family, Our Lady, Saint Joseph, and the Child Jesus, who fled to Egypt to escape violence and to find refuge among strangers,” he said. “Take these words with you always, so that they can bring you encouragement and consolation.”
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#1. To: Don (#0)
COOL! I guess this means he is going to invite them all to live in Vatican City,and the Catholic Church is going to pay all their expenses? It's about damn time those freaks started putting their money where their mouths are! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight ! Until then, the pope should STFU!!!! Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There are no Carthaginian terrorists. “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” - George S. Patton
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight ! Until then, the pope should STFU!!!! He can't because he is trolling for all those government contracts to provide for the "refugees" from the 3rd World. That is a major source of wealth for the Catholic Church. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
I like the idea of moving them all here, so long as here consists of Washington, D.C., and selected adjoining wealthy neighborhoods in Maryland and Virginia. Every "refuge" would be conspicuously tattooed with a bar code identifier and forbidden to leave their assigned neighborhood. A violation would be a felony requiring a mandatory ten year prison sentence. The sentences would be served in Mexico, which would be paid a flat fee of $10,000 for each ten year incarceration. We would make it clear to Mexico that we would not seek a pro-rated refund if the prisoner were to tragically and unexpectedly die before finishing the term of imprisonment. However, there would be a damages clause in the contract reducing our payments to Mexico by a million dollars for any of the felons who escape back to the United States. What real refugee could object to that generous offer? A K A Stone to sneakypete, "You count on big government to spread your perversion."
The Pope is right. Concern for the refugees means that they should go to the places where they will be best respected. That means that Christians, Yazidis and Druze should be coming to the West, that Muslims should be going to the Muslim countries, and the multilateral organizations such as the Church, the UN and the various charitable organizations and national governments should be distributing resources as necessary to make it happen.
We all know the answer to that. He depends upon his faithful to do as he tells them, not do as he does.
Psalm 37 PRAY FOR PARIS
The Yazidi have some barbaric practices too, like stoning one of their teenage girls because she ran away with a man of another tribe. How in the world would that work?
And we also have many barbaric practices. The way it would work is that the refugees are given a primer in American law, and if Yazidis kill somebody, we try them for murder.
This pope is one of the devil's children.
This pope is one of the devil's children.
The Pope has always been an open borders kind of guy.
потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
With one exception . . . "Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD . . . " ~Psalm 33:12a
Tell the French that.
Psalm 37 PRAY FOR PARIS
Yep. Don't do as I do, do as I say do.
Psalm 37 PRAY FOR PARIS
I think that is very likely.
Psalm 37 PRAY FOR PARIS
The French don't need to be told anything. They are tracking down the perpetrators of the crime and are killing them. And in Syria, they're teaming up with the Russians to strike at ISIS.
I agree. They already know the foolishness of unchecked migration of Muslims.
Psalm 37 PRAY FOR PARIS
We'll see in the next election whether the French take it that way. I think it is far more likely that the French perceive the need for a larger and more penetrating state security apparatus, than a change to their way of looking at the world. Also, I think the French are far more likely to think that wiping out ISIS in Syria and Iraq will stop the terror attacks in French, because the funding, training and equipping of the terrorists comes out of the ISIS territory. By destroying the ISIS state, France will be destroying the ACTUAL threat, by killing it over there, rather than shredding their own concept of what France is by fighting against the population of France. ISIS terrorism stems out of the ISIS lands of the Middle East. You destroy that, and you cut off the head. With the Russians and French coordinating missions, I'd say that the French view is that the war is properly fought in Syria, not in France. If Marine Le Pen wins the election, that will mean that the government's strategy does not represent the will of the French people. But if, as I suspect, the French will not go hard-over racist in reaction to hate, but will opt instead for foreign war, she will lose and France will pursue a strategy that will not involve cutting off immigration of refugees to France.
We will see.
Psalm 37 PRAY FOR PARIS
There are plenty of refugee camps in the ME for the Syrians/Muzzies to go to but they don't want to be in them, not enough freebies or good enough accommodations... Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
I get almost daily updates from a Christian relief group, RUN Ministries, asking for help to expand their refugee camps in northern Iraq. Why the West does not build off of these Christian run relief camps and help protect them is a head scratcher. It would reduce the mass exodus. "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near"---Isaiah 55:6
Woo Hoo, open up the vatican and spread the billions they have stolen over the years to the people.
There has been a terrorist alert in the Vatican. Is it a Put-on to show us the Pope is really on our side?
Psalm 37 PRAY FOR PARIS
Well, the West is mostly the United States. Obama probably wants the Muslims to continue their migration into the West to set up fifth columns.
Psalm 37 PRAY FOR PARIS
Those gaudy cupcakes with their pretty spears and flowery pointed helmets will certainly tell the next wave of terrorists who is boss and deterr them.
Refugees are God's children but they don't have to live here. This is the point that has been missed. The world has the resources to accommodate these people and very well. They don't need to migrate, they need proper shelter to be established for them, they need to be supplied with food, medical care. Tents are fine for emergency shelter but over time this has to be replaced and resettlement must be pursued
Why is it they are unable to supply these things for themselves?
Spoken by a true republican There is something that is in short supply in their world. MONEY! let me say it another way; CASH! as well as opportunity. In order to establish inferstructure you need money and opportunity, you need the goodwill of the country you are in, what these people often have is a patch of arid land on which tents are erected, water is trucked in, sanitation is less than satisfactory if present at all and solid buildings are few and erected from scavanged materials. Now these people may have escaped from the family home with some cash but it isn't enough to embark on building programs, just enough to pay people smugglers to get them the hell out of there. The Syrian conflict has proven the need for longer term accommodationeven if the war ends they have nothing to go back too particularly if Assad remains in power
just for the record there are more western people outside the US than are in it however knowing that american people don't recognise the other 95% of humanity we can expect you think the term west refers only to you. The term west collectively refers to any place west of Asia so it includes all of Europe, the americas, Australia. What we should be conscious of is the population of asia far outnumbers us the muslims already represent a fifth column in every western country, this is why we experience incidents involving muslims pursuing jihadist objectives. The other day we had islamists marching down our streets shouting "our law", let me know when it starts to happen in the US. Your muslims have their head down at the moment, they haven't attained critical mass
They're immigrating to a point where they will soon have enough confidence in their numbers to a level where they will begin showing their asses and begin a jihadist guerilla war with what happened in France happening here. CAIR is just the beginning.
You're trying to blame fifteen hundred years of sadistic jihadist conquest and backwardness on Assad?
Not at all, he is just the most recent of a long line of arab despots. Just because they have been doing it for 1500 years is no reason we should put up with modern day despotism. Mudhutmad was just a desert brigand who hit upon a way to legitimise his activities. God told me to do it, I've had a vision, So he raided his neighbours and took over Medina and Mecca. You could be assured he would be surprised to learn his ideas are still followed today
#2. To: sneakypete (#1)
" I guess this means he is going to invite them all to live in Vatican City,and the Catholic Church is going to pay all their expenses? "
#3. To: Stoner (#2)
" I guess this means he is going to invite them all to live in Vatican City,and the Catholic Church is going to pay all their expenses? "
#4. To: Stoner (#2)
#5. To: Don (#0)
#6. To: sneakypete (#1)
#7. To: Vicomte13 (#5)
#8. To: ebonytwix (#7)
The Yazidi have some barbaric practices too, like stoning one of their teenage girls because she ran away with a man of another tribe. How in the world would that work?
#9. To: Don (#0)
#10. To: Don (#0)
Refugees are God's children, Pope says in wake of Paris attacks
#11. To: Don, redleghunter, All (#0)
#12. To: SOSO (#11)
The Pope has always been an open borders kind of guy.
#13. To: Vicomte13 (#8)
#14. To: Rufus T Firefly (#12)
#15. To: rlk (#10)
#16. To: Don (#13)
Tell the French that.
#17. To: Vicomte13 (#16)
#18. To: Don (#17)
I agree. They already know the foolishness of unchecked migration of Muslims.
#19. To: Vicomte13 (#18)
#20. To: Vicomte13 (#5)
that Muslims should be going to the Muslim countries,
#21. To: Don (#13)
#22. To: Don (#0)
#23. To: calcon (#22)
#24. To: redleghunter (#21)
#25. To: Rufus T Firefly (#12)
#26. To: Don (#24)
Well, the West is mostly the United States. Obama probably wants the Muslims to continue their migration into the West to set up fifth columns.
Bingo!
#27. To: Don (#0)
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#28. To: paraclete (#27)
they need proper shelter to be established for them, they need to be supplied with food, medical care.
#29. To: rlk (#28)
(Edited)
Why is it they are unable to supply these things for themselves?
#30. To: rlk (#26)
(Edited)
Well, the West is mostly the United States.
#31. To: paraclete (#30)
(Edited)
Your muslims have their head down at the moment, they haven't attained critical mass...
#32. To: paraclete (#29)
The Syrian conflict has proven the need for longer term accommodationeven if the war ends they have nothing to go back too particularly if Assad remains in power...
#33. To: rlk (#32)
You're trying to blame fifteen hundred years of sadistic jihadist conquest and backwardness on Assad?
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