Pope decries indifference toward migrants, as he prays for the dead in Marseille

[Nevilledog]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pope-decries-indifference-migrants-prays-dead-marseille-rcna116993

Pope Francis challenged French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders to open their ports to people fleeing hardship and poverty, insisting Saturday that the continent isn’t facing a migration “emergency” but rather a long-term reality that governments must deal with humanely.

For a second straight day in the French port city of Marseille, Francis took aim at European countries that have used “alarmist propaganda” to justify closing their doors to migrants, and tried to shame them into responding with charity instead.

He called for migrants to have legal pathways to citizenship, and for the Mediterranean Sea that so many cross to reach Europe to be a beacon of hope, not a graveyard of desperation.

The Mediterranean, Francis told Macron and a gathering of regional bishops, “cries out for justice, with its shores that on the one hand exude affluence, consumerism and waste, while on the other there is poverty and instability.”

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Evangelicals won't care because they don't consider Catholics to be actual christians.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Putin has been a part of the migrant crisis.

He deliberately creates conditions in Africa and South America which causes migrants to flood democratic countries.
This causes chaos and anger which Putin uses to install conservative autocratic leadership in those countries.
Who will work for him.

[EX500rider]

2. How many migrants at the Vatican City exactly? nt

[ret5hd]

4. I don't know, but...

(from usafacts.org)
Over 3.5 million refugees have entered the US since 1975 — more than the population of Nevada. In 2022, 25,465 refugees arrived in the US, a 123% increase from 2021.

So, if there were 7 in Vatican City today, they would have about the same percent as the US has cumulative since 1975.

Maybe there’s 0 in Vatican City though.

[msongs]

3. gee maybe the church could support condoms and pregnancy prevention nt