{"id":1085021,"date":"2021-12-04T21:28:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T02:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1085021"},"modified":"2021-12-04T21:28:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T02:28:36","slug":"pope-francis-barbed-wire-blocking-migrants-is-a-form-of-hatred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-barbed-wire-blocking-migrants-is-a-form-of-hatred\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Barbed Wire Blocking Migrants Is a \u2018Form of Hatred\u2019"},"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\">22<\/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-barbed-wire-blocking-migrants-is-a-form-of-hatred%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=1085021&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\/12\/pope-640x335-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 Pope Francis denounced the use of barbed wire to keep migrants out as a \u201cform of hatred\u201d Friday, insisting that the West is responsible for the \u201cuniversal enslavement\u201d of migrants.<\/p>\n<p>In some places, \u201cbarbed wire is set up to prevent the entrance of refugees, those who come in search of freedom, food, assistance, fraternity, joy, those fleeing from hatred but then find themselves facing a form of hatred called barbed wire,\u201d the pope <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/speeches\/2021\/december\/documents\/20211203-cipro-preghiera-migranti.html\">said<\/a> during a meeting with migrants during his visit to the island nation of Cyprus.<\/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>Looking at you, I think of \u201call those people who had to return because they were turned away and ended up in concentration camps, real concentration camps, where the women have been sold, and men tortured and enslaved,\u201d he told them, while insisting that such horrors stem from the indifference of \u201cthe West.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see all those people who were kidnapped, sold, exploited\u2026 and who are still on the journey, we know not where,\u201d the pontiff said. \u201cWe are speaking of slavery, of universal enslavement. We see what is happening, and the worst thing is that we are becoming used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are appalled when we read stories of the concentration camps of the last century, those of the Nazis or those of Stalin, and we say: \u2018How could this possibly have happened?\u2019 Brothers and sisters, it is happening today, on nearby coasts! Places of enslavement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI have seen some filmed testimonies about this: places of torture and human trafficking,\u201d he continued. \u201cI say all this because it is my responsibility to help open people\u2019s eyes to this reality. Forced migration is not a kind of \u2018tourism\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is today\u2019s war: the suffering of our brothers and sisters, which we cannot pass over in silence,\u201d Francis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd all those who were turned away and ended up in the concentration camps, true places of torture and enslavement,\u201d he said. \u201cSuch is the story of this developed civilization that we call the West.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcuse me if I have spoken of things as they really are, but we cannot remain silent and look the other way amid this culture of indifference,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p>Employing more theological language, the pope said that Jesus Christ identifies with today\u2019s migrants, while God \u201cdreams\u201d of a world without walls.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>We encounter the Lord Jesus \u201cin the faces of our marginalized and discarded brothers and sisters,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the face of the migrant who is despised, rejected, put in a cage, exploited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>God himself dreams \u201cof a humanity freed of walls of division, freed of hostility, where there are no longer strangers, but only fellow citizens,\u201d he said. \u201cFellow citizens who are diverse, yet proud of that diversity and individuality, which are God\u2019s gifts.<\/p>\n<p>It is close-mindedness and prejudice that \u201cre-erect the wall of division, the hostility between us, that Christ tore down,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod speaks through your dreams. God does not speak through people who are dreamless, because they have everything or because their hearts are hardened,\u201d he said.<\/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 denounced the use of barbed wire to keep migrants out as a \u201cform of hatred\u201d Friday, insisting that the West is responsible for the \u201cuniversal enslavement\u201d &#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-1085021","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\/1085021","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=1085021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085021\/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=1085021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}