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Refugees are God’s children, Pope says in wake of Paris attacks
Vatican City, Nov 17, 2015 / 04:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- 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.”
Source: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/refugees-are-gods-children-pope-says-in-wake-of-paris-attacks-27455/
The Pope can kiss my ass! If he loves these refugees so much then he can bring them into Rome; right along with the terrorists (Satan’s children) mixed in with them! The people of America be warned that the Papacy is the same CRIMINALS that defrauded America and was instrumental in setting up the fake US government that we see today – the VATICAN is only gilded in GOLD because it was stolen off of all Americans! The Pope and the VATICAN is nothing more then a den of VIPERS!
Do you think he has a taste for that kind of thing?
A taste for what… ass kissing, whoring itself to governments or stealing gold? Think the Vatican is an expert in all three.
“Refugees are God’s children, Pope says in wake of Paris attacks”
Yep, and ironically fleeing from French bombs falling on Syrian troops, their infrastructure and innocent civilians for supporting Assad, and the draconian Saudi Arabian version of Islam in their so claimed ‘Arab Spring’, terrorists called ISIS being armed, trained and funded by America.
And then we’re supposed to believe that France was attacked by ISIS, it’s American created ally? You’re completely stupid if you fall for that fairy story.
Add: This is how ridiculous the claim is, that ISIS attacked France. It’s on a par with Britain attacking America for stepping in during WW2 to help defeat Germany. How likely is that?
Excommunicated heretic Bergoglio (a.k.a. “Francis”) … is (of course) lying again.
God created all people … but all people are not “God’s children”.
God says … over and over and over … that heretics and un-baptized pagans are *NOT* His children.
Catholic writing of Saint John 3:5 >
“Jesus answered: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.” (pagans are not God’s children)
Catholic writing of Saint Paul in Titus 3:10
“A man that is a heretic … is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned by his own judgment.”
(heretics are not God’s children)
Etc, etc, etc, etc …
More at > > > http://www.Gods-Catholic-Dogma.com/section_7.1.2.html (regarding pagans)
More at > > > http://www.Gods-Catholic-Dogma.com/section_8.html (regarding heretics)
Never listen to a single word from Bergoglio … he is *always* lying against God’s Dogma.
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C A U T I O N: The Catholic Church has had *zero* … physical properties, priests, and bishops since 8 December 1965 … because of the Sources of Dogma on automatic excommunication for heresy.
Mountains of proof > http://www.Gods-Catholic-Dogma.com/section_12.html
Photographic proof > http://www.Gods-Catholic-Dogma.com/section_13.html
(We have to admit … *photographic* proof of heresy *IS* compelling)
Abjuration of heresy to become Christian > http://www.Gods-Catholic-Dogma.com/section_19.1.html
(Abjuration takes about 45 minutes)