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Pope Francis prays at Korean cemetery for aborted babies
cna ^ | August 16, 2014

Posted on 08/17/2014 5:06:52 AM PDT by NYer

Credit: Preparatory Committee for the 2014 Papal Visit to Korea.
Credit: Preparatory Committee for the 2014 Papal Visit to Korea.

Seoul, South Korea, Aug 16, 2014 / 07:44 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- En route from visiting a rehabilitation center in Kkottognae and on his way to meet with Korean religious, Pope Francis stopped and prayed for a few minutes at local cemetery for aborted children.

The Holy Father got out of the Kia Pope Mobile in which he was being transported to pray at this location, accompanied by a Korean Bishop and a priest acting as his translator.

With his hands clasped together, Pope Francis prayed in silence before this cemetery which contains a prominent statue of the Holy Family and a great quantity of white crosses commemorating the children who have been aborted.

In comments to CNA, Kim Doh Woo, a teacher in Kkottognae, explained that “this is the place where we pray for the babies, for those babies that were killed by abortion.”

“Many people visit this place and pray for their baby or for other babies. This cross is not a tomb, but rather it represents the baby’s soul; this is a place of prayer.”

After having prayed at the cemetery, the Holy Father returned to the Pope Mobile and made his way towards the “School of Love” in Kkottognae where he concluded his public schedule with a special encounter with 6,000 Korean religious.


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1 posted on 08/17/2014 5:06:52 AM PDT by NYer
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To: Tax-chick; GregB; Berlin_Freeper; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 08/17/2014 5:07:10 AM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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To: NYer

1.34+ Billion killed, just since 1980. More little boys and girls killed, in the past 34 years, than all of the world’s health epidemics and wars throughout history combined.

Every American (the SC Justices have a lot to answer for, but mothers and other conspirators are not off the hook), as well as other nations, are forced to support this evil.

Every American now funds the spread of this evil throughout the whole world.

The Democratic Party of America has forced this evil onto the souls of every American taxpayer, regardless of their religious beliefs.

The right of mothers to kill their own children, trumps our Constitution and our faiths.

There is no evil in the world, nor has there ever been, proportionate to the evil of abortion-on-demand.

There is no more deadly place in the world, nor has there ever been, than a mother’s womb.

1.34+ BILLION INNOCENT DEFENSELESS LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS KILLED SINCE 1980

http://www.numberofabortions.com/


3 posted on 08/17/2014 7:15:41 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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