{"id":1086230,"date":"2021-12-05T10:29:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T15:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1086230"},"modified":"2021-12-05T10:29:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T15:29:19","slug":"pope-francis-we-live-in-the-age-of-walls-and-barbed-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-we-live-in-the-age-of-walls-and-barbed-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: We Live in \u2018the Age of Walls and Barbed Wire\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\">24<\/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-we-live-in-the-age-of-walls-and-barbed-wire%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=1086230&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 lamented Sunday morning that \u201clittle has changed with regard to the issue of migration\u201d since he last visited the Greek island of Lesbos in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Progress is being made in the campaign to vaccinate people against the Wuhan coronavirus and even in the fight against climate change,\u201d the pope said during his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/speeches\/2021\/december\/documents\/20211205-grecia-rifugiati.html\">address<\/a> at the Reception and Identification Centre on Lesbos, yet \u201call this seems to be terribly absent when it comes to migration.\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>Migration is \u201can issue for the whole world: a humanitarian crisis that concerns everyone,\u201d the pontiff stated, and \u201chuman lives, real people, are at stake!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The solution to the migration crisis is openness rather than secure borders, Francis insisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is distressing to hear of proposals that common funds be used to build walls and barbed wire as a solution,\u201d the pontiff declared. \u201cWe are in the age of walls and barbed wire.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19011290\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237022879.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19011290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237022879-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A man pays his respects to the Pope Francis during a meeting with refugees at the Reception and Identification Centre (RIC) in Mytilene on the island of Lesbos on December 5, 2021. (ANDREAS SOLARO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Problems \u201care not resolved and coexistence improved by building walls higher, but by joining forces to care for others according to the concrete possibilities of each and in respect for the law,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>As he has done on other occasions, the pope criticized nations that do not open their doors to migrants, insisting that such a position reflects a lethal indifference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn this Sunday, I ask God to rouse us from our disregard for those who are suffering, to shake us from an individualism that excludes others, to awaken hearts that are deaf to the needs of our neighbours,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ask every man and woman, all of us, to overcome the paralysis of fear, the indifference that kills, the cynical disregard that nonchalantly condemns to death those on the fringes!\u201d he added. \u201cLet us combat at its root the dominant mindset that revolves around ourselves, our self-interest, personal and national, and becomes the measure and criterion of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The pope again blamed \u201cnationalism\u201d and a lack of multilateralism for the ongoing sufferings of migrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistory teaches us that narrow self-interest and nationalism lead to disastrous consequences,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is an illusion to think it is enough to keep ourselves safe, to defend ourselves from those in greater need who knock at our door.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>What is needed \u201care not unilateral actions but wide-ranging policies,\u201d he asserted. \u201cLet us stop ignoring reality, stop constantly shifting responsibility, stop passing off the issue of migration to others, as if it mattered to no one and was only a pointless burden to be shouldered by somebody else!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, \u201cthere are those who persist in treating the problem as a matter that does not concern them. This is tragic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19011314\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237021678.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19011314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237021678-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Pope Francis listens to a speech during a meeting with refugees at the Reception and Identification Centre (RIC) in Mytilene on the island of Lesbos on December 5, 2021. Pope Francis return to the island of Lesbos, the migration flashpoint he first visited in 2016, to plead for better treatment of refugees as attitudes towards immigrants harden across Europe. (LOUISA GOULIAMAKI\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Mediterranean, which for millennia has brought different peoples and distant lands together, is now becoming a grim cemetery without tombstones,\u201d Francis stated. \u201cThis great basin of water, the cradle of so many civilizations, now looks like a mirror of death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us not let our sea (<em>mare nostrum<\/em>) be transformed into a desolate sea of death (<em>mare mortuum<\/em>),\u201d he exclaimed. \u201cLet us not allow this place of encounter to become a theatre of conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us not permit this \u2018sea of memories\u2019 to be transformed into a \u2018sea of forgetfulness,\u2019\u201d he continued. \u201cPlease brothers and sisters, let us stop this shipwreck of civilization!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, for all his dislike of walls, Pope Francis is the ruler of the only completely walled-in country in the world and the smallest independent state by both area and population.<\/p>\n<p>The massive, 40-foot-high walls surrounding Vatican City State were built by Pope Leo IV, after Islamic Saracen troops sacked Old St. Peter\u2019s Basilica in 846 AD.<\/p>\n<p>The original walls encompassed the entire Vatican hill, surrounding what came to be known as the Leonine City, but were later reduced to circumscribe only the 110-acre Vatican City that exists today.<\/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 Sunday morning that \u201clittle has changed with regard to the issue of migration\u201d since he last visited the Greek island of Lesbos in 2016. 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