{"id":1060981,"date":"2021-11-28T02:58:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T07:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1060981"},"modified":"2021-11-28T02:58:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T07:58:43","slug":"pope-francis-admonishes-europe-for-hostility-toward-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-admonishes-europe-for-hostility-toward-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Admonishes Europe for \u2018Hostility\u2019 Toward Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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-admonishes-europe-for-hostility-toward-migrants%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=1060981&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pope-Migrants.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 Pope Francis lamented the often \u201chostile\u201d reception given to migrants in Europe and elsewhere in a video message sent Saturday to prepare his upcoming visit to Cyprus and Greece.<\/p>\n<p>The pope also <a href=\"https:\/\/press.vatican.va\/content\/salastampa\/it\/bollettino\/pubblico\/2021\/11\/27\/0792\/01659.html#EN\">warned<\/a> of other crises, declaring that \u201cthe climate crisis is looming large\u201d but spent more time calling for \u201copen ports\u201d and denouncing policies that he believes lead to migrant deaths at sea.<\/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>\u201cThe sea, which embraces many peoples, with its open ports reminds us that the sources of living together lie in mutual acceptance,\u201d the pontiff stated in his message. \u201cEven now I feel welcomed by your affection and I thank those who have been preparing my visit for some time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I am also thinking of those who, in recent years and still today, have been fleeing from war and poverty, landing on the shores of the continent and elsewhere, and encountering not hospitality but hostility and even exploitation. They are our brothers and sisters,\u201d he chided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many have lost their lives at sea!\u201d he continued. \u201cToday our sea, the Mediterranean, is a great cemetery.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea have, indeed, increased in 2021, having already <a href=\"https:\/\/migration.iom.int\/europe\/arrivals?type=arrivals\">surpassed<\/a> the total 2020 number, with 1,559 dead or missing so far in 2021 and 1,449 in all of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>This number reflects the growing number of migrants who attempt the dangerous crossing from Africa to Italy now that the latter has opened its ports to migration. So far this year, 134,120 have reached the shores of Europe, while in all of 2020, the number was below 100,000 (99,475).<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has indicated his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2021\/11\/26\/pope-francis-will-bring-migrants-back-to-italy-after-visiting-cyprus\/\">intention<\/a> to again bring migrants back to Rome on the papal plane with him as he did after his trip to the Greek island of Lesbos (Lesvos) in 2016, a journey he referenced in his address Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a pilgrim to the wellsprings of humanity, I will go to Lesvos again, convinced that the sources of common life will only flourish again in fraternity and integration: together,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is no other way and with this vision I go to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even today, \u201cEurope cannot ignore the Mediterranean, the sea which has seen the spread of the Gospel and the development of great civilisations,\u201d Francis said. \u201cThe <em>mare nostrum<\/em>, which connects so many lands, invites us to sail together, not to be divided by going our separate ways, especially at a time when the fight against the pandemic still requires effort, and the climate crisis is looming large.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last May, the island nation of Cyprus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\">declared<\/a> a \u201cstate of emergency\u201d due to the flood of migrants overwhelming its reception centers and appealed for help from the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to this situation and overcrowding in reception centers, I was forced to make a written representation to the European Commission,\u201d said Interior Minister Nicos Nouris.<\/p>\n<p>Nouris informed the commission that Cyprus was \u201centering a state of emergency as far as migration is concerned, and there is no further capacity to host additional migrants.\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 lamented the often \u201chostile\u201d reception given to migrants in Europe and elsewhere in a video message sent Saturday to prepare his upcoming visit to Cyprus and &#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-1060981","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\/1060981","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=1060981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060981\/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=1060981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}