{"id":1235496,"date":"2022-01-24T13:37:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T18:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1235496"},"modified":"2022-01-24T13:38:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T18:38:22","slug":"pope-francis-to-journalists-immigrants-are-not-dangerous-invaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-to-journalists-immigrants-are-not-dangerous-invaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis to Journalists: Immigrants Are Not \u2018Dangerous Invaders\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\">18<\/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-to-journalists-immigrants-are-not-dangerous-invaders%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=1235496&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 urged journalists Monday not to portray immigrants in a negative fashion but rather sympathetically as human-interest stories.<\/p>\n<p>In his annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/messages\/communications\/documents\/20220124-messaggio-comunicazioni-sociali.html\">message<\/a> for the World Day of Social Communications, the pope said that \u201cthe reality of forced migration is also a complex issue, and no one has a ready-made prescription for solving it.\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>\u201cI repeat that, in order to overcome prejudices about migrants and to melt the hardness of our hearts, we should try to listen to their stories,\u201d Francis said. \u201cGive each of them a name and a story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany good journalists already do this. And many others would like to do it, if only they could. Let us encourage them! Let us listen to these stories!\u201d the pontiff continued.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than providing scary statistics on migration or depicting migrants as invaders, journalists need to focus on the positive and the human, he stated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19604658\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237376437.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19604658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237376437-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Pope Francis (C) meets an Afghan refugee family, who came from Lesbos, after the general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on December 22, 2021. (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cEveryone would then be free to support the migration policies they deem most appropriate for their own country,\u201d the pope said. \u201cBut in any case, we would have before our eyes not numbers, not dangerous invaders, but the faces and stories, gazes, expectations and sufferings of real men and women to listen to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has made openness to migrants a hallmark of his pontificate and his first trip as pope was to the Italian island of Lampedusa, the ground zero of Europe\u2019s migrant crisis, to meet with migrants there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMigrants are not a danger; they are in danger,\u201d the pope <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2016\/05\/29\/pope-francis-migrants-not-danger-danger\/\">told<\/a> schoolchildren in 2016. He then had the group repeat out loud several times together with him: \u201cThey are not a danger, they are in danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So when will Pope Francis tear down his wicked Vatican Wall and embrace millions of migrants? And when will the Vatican let unvaccinated migrants in? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eawkFWCPdG\">https:\/\/t.co\/eawkFWCPdG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1442331879722598400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The following year, Francis made one of his more controversial statements regarding immigration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/faith\/2017\/08\/21\/pope-francis-rights-migrants-trump-national-security-concerns\/\">insisting<\/a> that the rights of migrants trump national security interests.<\/p>\n<p>While calling for a streamlined process of granting visas to migrants, Francis said the principle of ensuring each person\u2019s dignity \u201cobliges us to always prioritize personal safety over national security.\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 urged journalists Monday not to portray immigrants in a negative fashion but rather sympathetically as human-interest stories. 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