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Pope likens migrant holding centers to 'concentration camps'
Reuters ^ | Apr. 22, 2017 | Philip Pullella

Posted on 04/22/2017 1:32:17 PM PDT by Innovative

Pope Francis urged governments on Saturday to get migrants and refugees out of holding centers, saying many had become "concentration camps".

During a visit to a Rome basilica, where he met migrants, Francis told of his visit to a camp on the Greek island of Lesbos last year.

There he met a Muslim refugee from the Middle East who told him how "terrorists came to our country". Islamists had slit the throat of the man's Christian wife because she refused to throw her crucifix the ground.

"I don't know if he managed to leave that concentration camp, because refugee camps, many of them, are of concentration (type) because of the great number of people left there inside them," the pope said.

Francis praised countries helping refugees and thanked them for "bearing this extra burden, because it seems that international accords are more important than human rights".

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


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To: Innovative
There's a great line by John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful:

It's like tryin' to tell a stranger about rock-n-roll

Trying to explain this pope to non-Catholics is a fruitless endeavor.
We know what he is up to, but how does one convey this to an outsider?
41 posted on 04/22/2017 2:32:29 PM PDT by jobim
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To: Innovative

Yep, take em in, Big Boy

Especially the young males


42 posted on 04/22/2017 2:32:58 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! BOYCOTT Mexico nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: Innovative

Lighten up, Francis!


43 posted on 04/22/2017 2:34:58 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Innovative

Follow the money...Catholic Charities makes tons of money from government contracts “caring for immigrants and refugees” at taxpayer expense. Other religious groups are doing the same. They don’t want to lose the goose that lays golden eggs.


44 posted on 04/22/2017 2:36:17 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Innovative

You’re free to put 10,000 inside your 50-foot-high walls, pope-boy.


45 posted on 04/22/2017 2:45:18 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Innovative

...Islamists had slit the throat of the man’s Christian wife because she refused to throw her crucifix the ground.

&&&
Un-huh, but they let him go, huh? Sure, I believe his story....


46 posted on 04/22/2017 2:46:26 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Innovative

Vatican still has walls around it.
Might be time to knock them all down.


47 posted on 04/22/2017 2:46:40 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: CGASMIA68

Francis is the liberation theology Globalist NWO installed Pope, they needed him and Hillary to continue the Islamic invasion of the West along with Merkel and other reprobates in the West.

They all serve the same anti-Christ spirit rising up for the last days,


48 posted on 04/22/2017 2:53:38 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: A_Former_Democrat

They’d especially want the young males. The younger, the better.


49 posted on 04/22/2017 2:57:46 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: captmar-vell; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal

[They all serve the same anti-Christ spirit rising up for the last days,]

Many, unfortunately, do not realize the “ecumenical” movement will result in a False Prophet who honors “the three great religions or three great faiths”.

Built upon the lie that islam is “an Abrahamic faith”. It most assuredly is not.

You can see it building constantly.


50 posted on 04/22/2017 3:05:09 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Innovative

I don’t actually see a problem with concenttration camps for invading barbarians. Or calling it a concentration camp.


51 posted on 04/22/2017 3:12:36 PM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Innovative

"Lucifer and the Pope in Hell", William Blake (1794)

52 posted on 04/22/2017 3:13:07 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: avenir

Never saw that before. Thanks for posting it.

Maybe you can identify what probably is a famous piece of art. I’d like to get a (very) cheap copy someday.

It is a man at his home, in awe of Jesus Christ sitting there; Whose shadow on the wall is the only thing seen. I really thought that painting was powerful but have no idea who did it.

I can only identify LeRoy Nieman works and maybe the Mona Lisa, LOL.


53 posted on 04/22/2017 3:18:49 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: SaveFerris

“You can see it building constantly.”

So true. The collective delusion, a judgment for refusing to love the truth (as it is in Jesus).


54 posted on 04/22/2017 3:25:58 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: avenir

There will be a False Messiah (Antichrist) and a False Prophet. /preaching to the choir

Some erroneously believe them to be one, but it will be the two offices. Jimmy DeYoung believes this but is otherwise pretty good.

I have said and still maintain, the seedlings of Strong Delusion have already begun. Talking to as many Obamabots as I did, I would have been better off talking to a brick wall.

I was astonished at the stupidity. Absolutely mind-boggling.


55 posted on 04/22/2017 3:29:36 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: SaveFerris

I think it may be Rembrandt’s SUPPER AT EMMAUS? Image is very large so here’s link...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_022.jpg


56 posted on 04/22/2017 3:35:39 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: avenir

Yes! That is it I think! Looks like there is a shadowy figure that is cooking.

I didn’t remember it correctly! Thank you!!!

I had thought there was a man with his jaw agape and a shadow on the wall. Either way, this will do.

Nice.


57 posted on 04/22/2017 3:38:08 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Innovative

I agree with the Pope - End migrant holding centers. Return them to their natural habitat in the Arab world, where they belong.


58 posted on 04/22/2017 4:20:53 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Innovative

Someone needs to tell him that it is a sin to bear false witness against his neighbors.


59 posted on 04/22/2017 4:28:42 PM PDT by SaraJohnson ( Whites being racially harassed and harmed by Leftist in power need to sue! It's pay day.)
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To: Innovative

Pope likes to live in secluded luxury. He needs to open the Vatican to refugees.


60 posted on 04/22/2017 7:41:51 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Parroting fake news is highly profitable for some.)
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