{"id":936364,"date":"2021-10-29T08:43:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T12:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=936364"},"modified":"2021-10-29T08:43:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T12:43:53","slug":"pope-francis-let-there-be-no-more-borders-or-walls-to-hide-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-let-there-be-no-more-borders-or-walls-to-hide-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Let There Be No More Borders or Walls to \u2018Hide Behind\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\">26<\/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-let-there-be-no-more-borders-or-walls-to-hide-behind%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=936364&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 The great takeaway from the coronavirus pandemic is a rejection of borders and walls, Pope Francis told the BBC on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClimate change and the Covid-19 pandemic have exposed our deep vulnerability and raised numerous doubts and concerns about our economic systems and the way we organize our societies,\u201d the pope asserted in a special audio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/events\/event.dir.html\/content\/vaticanevents\/en\/2021\/10\/29\/messaggio-bbc-cop26.html\">message<\/a> for the launch of the COP26 Climate Conference.<\/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 most important lesson we can take from these crises is our need to build together, so that there will no longer be any borders, barriers or political walls for us to hide behind,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18199074\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1235689695.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18199074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1235689695.png\" alt=\"Pope Francis (L) and Egyptian Islamic scholar and the current Grand Imam of al-Azhar mosque, Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb (Rear C partly hidden) listen to a participant&#039;s speech during the meeting &quot;Faith and Science: Towards COP26&quot; on October 4, 2021 in The Vatican, sending an appeal to participants in the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, scheduled from November 1 to 12 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by ALESSANDRO DI MEO \/ POOL \/ AFP) (Photo by ALESSANDRO DI MEO\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Pope Francis (L) and Egyptian Islamic scholar and the current Grand Imam of al-Azhar mosque, Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb (Rear C partly hidden) listen to a participant\u2019s speech during the meeting \u201cFaith and Science: Towards COP26\u201d on October 4, 2021 in The Vatican, sending an appeal to participants in COP26&nbsp; for action. (ALESSANDRO DI MEO\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Francis said the pandemic and climate crisis have together taken away humanity\u2019s sense of security, making people feel powerless and lacking control over their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe find ourselves increasingly frail and even fearful, caught up in a succession of \u2018crises\u2019 in the areas of health care, the environment, food supplies and the economy, to say nothing of social, humanitarian and ethical crises,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>These crises are all profoundly interconnected, he stated, and call for \u201cthe ability to formulate plans and put them rapidly into action, to rethink the future of the world, our common home, and to reassess our common purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.956204379562\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pope Francis to Celebrate \u2018Mass for Migrants\u2019 in Vatican <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YQLw6FAYsP\">https:\/\/t.co\/YQLw6FAYsP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1145746387226808321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These crises also present us with the need to take \u201cradical decisions that are not always easy,\u201d he contended, while urging his hearers not to retreat into \u201cisolationism, protectionism and exploitation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking more directly about the environment and climate change, the pontiff cited a \u201cscientist\u201d who told him some time ago: \u201cIf things continue as they are, in fifty years\u2019 time my baby granddaughter will have to live in an unliveable world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot allow this to happen! It is essential that each of us be committed to this urgent change of direction, sustained by our own faith and spirituality,\u201d the pope insisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe political decision makers who will meet at COP26 in Glasgow are urgently summoned to provide effective responses to the present ecological crisis and in this way to offer concrete hope to future generations,\u201d Francis concluded, while inviting everyone to offer a collective response to the \u201cunprecedented threat of climate change and the degradation of our common home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME \u2014 The great takeaway from the coronavirus pandemic is a rejection of borders and walls, Pope Francis told the BBC on Friday morning. \u201cClimate change and the Covid-19 pandemic &#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-936364","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\/936364","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=936364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936364\/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=936364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}