{"id":1417102,"date":"2022-04-03T18:14:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T22:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417102"},"modified":"2022-04-03T18:14:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T22:14:49","slug":"pope-francis-urges-malta-to-become-safe-haven-for-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-urges-malta-to-become-safe-haven-for-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Urges Malta to Become \u2018Safe Haven\u2019 for 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\">20<\/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-urges-malta-to-become-safe-haven-for-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=1417102&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, Italy \u2014 Pope Francis ended his weekend visit to the island nation of Malta with a meeting with migrants Sunday, in which he assured them of his closeness and support.<\/p>\n<p>Migrants should be treated with \u201crare humanity,\u201d the pontiff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/it\/speeches\/2022\/april\/documents\/20220403-malta-migranti.html\">declared<\/a>, while urging Malta to treat all those who land on its shores in this way and \u201cto truly be a \u2018safe haven\u2019 for them.\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 way to treat migrants with \u201cuncommon humanity,\u201d Francis said, is by looking at people \u201cnot as numbers,\u201d but as \u201csimply men and women, brothers and sisters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That person I see on a boat or in the sea on television, or in a photo, \u201cin his place it could be me, or my son, or my daughter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The pope also said that migrant shipwrecks on the Mediterranean Sea also represent \u201cthe shipwreck of civilization, which threatens not only the refugees, but all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20505080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239690949.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Pope Francis blesses attendees as he arrives in the popemobile car for a meeting of prayer outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of Ta\u2019 Pinu, in Gharb, Gozo island, Malta, on April 02, 2022, on the first day of the Pope\u2019s two-day trip to the Mediterranean archipelago. (ANDREAS SOLARO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Migrants must detach themselves from their roots, a process that \u201cleaves a deep wound in the growth of a young man or a young woman,\u201d he said. \u201cIt takes time to heal this wound; it takes time and above all it takes experiences rich in humanity: meeting welcoming people who know how to listen, understand, accompany.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it is very important that in today\u2019s world migrants become witnesses of the human values \u200b\u200bessential for a dignified and fraternal life,\u201d Francis asserted. \u201cThey are values \u200b\u200bthat you carry within, which belong to your roots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere is the future of the human family in a globalized world,\u201d he said. \u201cI am happy to be able to share this dream with you today, just as you, in your testimonials, share your dreams with me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pope also underscored \u201cthe suffocated appeal of millions of migrants whose fundamental rights are violated, unfortunately sometimes with the complicity of the competent authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou are not numbers,\u201d he told the migrants, \u201cbut people in flesh and blood, with faces, and dreams that are sometimes broken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis made the issue of immigration a leitmotiv of his visit to Malta, urging greater openness and a welcoming spirit.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2022\/04\/02\/pope-francis-migrants-not-virus-which-we-need-protected\/\">address<\/a> to civil authorities Saturday, Francis called for a shift in narrative from emphasis on national security to an emphasis on welcoming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, when those who cross the Mediterranean in search of salvation are met with fear and the narrative of \u2018invasion\u2019 and safeguarding one\u2019s own security at any price seems to be the primary goal,\u201d he said, \u201clet us help one another not to view the migrant as a threat and not to yield to the temptation of raising drawbridges and erecting walls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther people are not a virus from which we need to be protected, but persons to be accepted,\u201d he asserted, adding that the Christian ideal is \u201ca summons to overcome suspicion, ingrained mistrust, fear of losing our privacy, all those defensive attitudes which today\u2019s world imposes on us.\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, Italy \u2014 Pope Francis ended his weekend visit to the island nation of Malta with a meeting with migrants Sunday, in which he assured them of his closeness and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1417102","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\/1417102","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417102\/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=1417102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}