Posted on 12/02/2016 1:39:03 PM PST by BlessedBeGod
.- While he was in town for a global meeting on the crisis in the Mediterranean region, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stopped by the Vatican for a meeting with Pope Francis that likely centered largely on the challenges of migration.
Kerry is currently in Rome for the three-day “Rome Med – Mediterranean Dialogues” meeting, which this year runs Dec. 1-3. The second annual event is a high-level initiative of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, as well as the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI).
The main purpose of the gathering is to draft a “positive agenda” for the Mediterranean region given the current challenges by coming up with new ideas and rethinking traditional approaches at both the local and international levels.
According to the website, this year’s meeting will focus on how the Mediterranean has increasingly become “the epicenter of international disorder,” and seems to now be “synonymous” with conflict, instability, terrorism and mass migration.
A description of the meeting, titled “Beyond Turmoil. A Positive Agenda,” said leaders “are called upon to define a long-term, comprehensive strategy to stabilize the region: this should become Europe’s new historic mission.”
The first priority they highlighted was “the defeat of Daesh (ISIS) and of violent extremism,” while another goal is to look beyond the mayhem and “imagine a new regional order, built through diplomacy, ownership, resilience, partnership, governance and co-development.”
When looking to the Mediterranean, the meeting description emphasized, it is important to see not just an area of crisis and instability, but also opportunities for Europe’s future which must be discussed and clarified in a “positive agenda” for the entire region, including Africa.
Filled with various meetings and workshops, the Rome Med meeting is set on four pillars: Shared Prosperity, Shared Security, Migration, Media, and Culture and Society.
More than 500 leaders from 55 nations around the world are present for the event, including nations such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Tunisia, Spain, Syria, Belgium, Sudan, Iran, Lebanon, Nigeria, France, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, China, Turkey and the UK, among others.
During his visit, Kerry also met with the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Secretary for Relations with the States, Archbishop Paul Gallagher.
The last time Kerry visited the Vatican was Jan. 14, 2014, ahead of the Pope’s trip to the United States. He had been on an international diplomatic tour to promote an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord and was also working for the success of the Geneva 2 Conference for peace in Syria.
Kerry’s meeting with Francis at the time focused largely on the Middle East, the Syrian conflict, the Sudan situation and religious freedom issues in the U.S.
What a pathetic joke.
Wow, one commie meets another commie.
But, the Pope still is a great deal smarter than lurch.
Not good. The pope is worried about what Trump’s SOS will do. He’s afraid that the USA won’t be taking in the millions of “migrants” that bammy promised him.
The Pope wants windsurfing tips. Who knew?
Geez...........suprised the place didn’t catch on fire from a major lighting bolt when these two came into the room.
perfect....one commie meeting another one.
Kerry just wants a trip to Rome on the taxpayer’s dime.
As I understand it, Kerry is a) a Catholic; and b) supports abortion upon demand.
Bergoglio has met with Kerry, Obama, Biden, both Castro brothers, “married” homos, “engaged to be married” lesbians, the foremost abortionist in Italy (Emma Bonino), Eva Morales (Bolivia), and Nicolás Maduro (Venzeula).
Yet he rejected a donation of over sixteen million dollars, from the current conservative president of his home country, Argentina; and he just recently cancelled his scheduled consistory of the college of cardinals, mostly likely because of the dubia that four orthodox cardinals presented to him, first privately and later publicly due to his refusal to address it. He had also cancelled a scheduled meeting with the conservative archbishop of Milan, Angelo Scola. He has snubbed the Dalai Lama in deference to the Red ChiComms and he implied Donald Trump is not even a Christian because he supports U.S. immigration laws.
Most recently, there have been reports that Bergolio has allowed the Chinese Communist government to appoint their own “bishops”; thus selling-out the underground true Catholic Catholic Church.
Two small men.
This Pope has a thing for commies.
Just a little confabulation between communists.
Two anti-Americans meeting to coordinate their 4-year program of assault upon the Trump Presidency.
But, the Pope still is a great deal smarter than lurch.
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Only in the sense that one who is an idiot may have slightly more intelligence than one who is an imbecile.
I’m certain the pope personally gave him communion and told him what a great Catholic he is.
As I understand it, Kerry is a) a Catholic; and b) supports abortion upon demand.
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Mutually exclusive.
b) is correct. You are batting .500.
A slug is a great deal smarter than Lurch. It doesn’t take much.
Yeah, but SOME people think ya gotta keep on praying for Frankie the Apostate.
I would think most Catholics would pray for apostates’ conversions, not their unhappy deaths.
Prayers for the Pope are prayed at every one of my Masses. But none of them are for his execution.
Are you still a Catholic?
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