{"id":1059645,"date":"2021-11-27T13:28:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T18:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1059645"},"modified":"2021-11-27T13:28:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T18:28:38","slug":"pope-francis-immigration-today-is-complex-sometimes-frightening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-immigration-today-is-complex-sometimes-frightening\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Immigration Today Is \u2018Complex,\u2019 Sometimes \u2018Frightening\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpope-francis-immigration-today-is-complex-sometimes-frightening%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1059645&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 Pope Francis said Saturday that in dealing with immigration problems government leaders must combine \u201chealthy realism\u201d with \u201crespect for people\u2019s dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addressing the organizers of the annual intercultural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ritmiedanzedalmondo.it\/\">Festival<\/a> of Giavera del Montello, the pope <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/it\/speeches\/2021\/november\/documents\/20211127-giaverafestival.html\">praised<\/a> them for including associations and groups of migrants to participate in their celebration, saying the festival has become \u201ca crossroads, a place for meeting, for dialogue, for mutual understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The pontiff went on to contrast a \u201cculture of hospitality\u201d and a \u201cculture of waste,\u201d urging the festival organizers to continue \u201cspreading a welcoming culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality of migration in our time has taken on characteristics that can sometimes be frightening,\u201d Francis said. \u201cObjectively, the phenomenon is very complex, and unfortunately there are criminal groups that take advantage of it; migrants risk being exploited even within geopolitical conflicts. Then they cease to be persons and become numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18912114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18912114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236680154-e1637962934116.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants line up outside the transport and logistics centre near the Bruzgi border point on the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region on November 20, 2021. \u2013 Poland said on November 20, 2021 that Belarus has changed tactics in their border crisis by now directing smaller groups of migrants to multiple points along the European Union\u2019s eastern frontier. \u2013 Belarus OUT (Photo by MAXIM GUCHEK\/BELTA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, there is more than ever a need for places in which the faces, stories, songs, prayers and art of migrants are put at the center,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the Prime Minister of Albania, the pope said you must open the door to anyone who knocks \u201cbecause it is God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis thought touched me: the one who knocks on your door is God,\u201d he said. \u201cOpen to him and leave your place for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Francis said, this attitude must not give way to a simplistic ideology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis way of seeing the reality of migration does not mean hiding or ignoring the difficulties and problems,\u201d he said, encouraging his listeners to share their experiences with migrants to promote good politics and \u201cto help government leaders at the local, national and international level to make choices that always combine a healthy realism with respect for people\u2019s dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw one of the paintings you brought, about the torture that migrants suffer when those traffickers take them,\u201d Francis said. \u201cAnd this happens today. We can\u2019t close our eyes!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME \u2014 Pope Francis said Saturday that in dealing with immigration problems government leaders must combine \u201chealthy realism\u201d with \u201crespect for people\u2019s dignity.\u201d In addressing the organizers of the annual &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}