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Pope Francis donates $500,000 to migrants at US border
ABC News ^ | April 27, 2019 | Soo Youn

Posted on 04/27/2019 1:34:03 PM PDT by Jyotishi

Pope Francis donated $500,000 to Mexico-based projects to help migrant communities as media attention has faded, the Vatican said Saturday.

The funds will be distributed between 27 projects associated with 16 Mexican dioceses and congregations, all of which asked for help to continue providing food, lodging, and basic necessities to those fleeing their home countries through Mexico.

“In recent months, thousands of migrants have arrived in Mexico, having travelled more than 4,000 kilometers on foot and with makeshift vehicles from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Men and women, often with young children, flee poverty and violence, hoping for a better future in the United States. However, the U.S. border remains closed to them,” said a press release from Peter's Pence, the organization handling the funds.

Peter’s Pence's collections are funds earmarked "to provide the Holy Father with the financial means to respond to those who are suffering as a result of war, oppression, natural disaster, and disease," according to its website.

The money is specifically meant to aid the 75,000 migrants who arrived in Mexico in 2018 as part of six caravans, according to a press release from Peter's Pence.

http://www.peterspence.va/en/opere-realizzate/messico.html

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antipope; border; caravan; catholic; christian; church; diocese; elsalvador; francis; guatemala; homosexualagenda; honduras; illegal; immigrant; immigration; migrant; money; pope; popefrancis; religion; romancatholicism; vatican; wall
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To: laplata

Most Liberal American Catholics love this Pope.
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An unspoken fact is that neither the Pope nor the LACs are actually Catholics: They just don’t realize it yet.


81 posted on 04/27/2019 4:17:06 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Civilization is held together by the hangman's noose.)
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To: dfwgator

A lot of atheists love this Pope.
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Yep, and a significant number of them go to Mass on Sunday!


82 posted on 04/27/2019 4:18:32 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Civilization is held together by the hangman's noose.)
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To: Ann Archy

Eternity for your soul does NOT depend on this Pope....don’t let him destroy you....the Catholic Church is WAY BEYOND this guy.
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Well and truly said!


83 posted on 04/27/2019 4:23:05 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Civilization is held together by the hangman's noose.)
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To: Wm F Buckley Republican

Stay away from any “church” that belongs to the commie-promoting National Council of Churches.
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Excellent advice. Wish someone would post a list of those churches. I’ll try to find such a list myself.


84 posted on 04/27/2019 4:27:52 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Civilization is held together by the hangman's noose.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

and firing all the heavily armed swiss guards?
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Heavily armed? Unless they do concealed carry, their arms are limited to their spears!


85 posted on 04/27/2019 4:31:54 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Civilization is held together by the hangman's noose.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Swiss Guards have state-of-the-art firepower, including H&K MP7s and Sig SG550 series rifles. Swiss Army training.


86 posted on 04/27/2019 4:44:47 PM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: stanne

Liberals don’t care
So what?

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You tell me.


87 posted on 04/27/2019 5:07:07 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

BINGO!


88 posted on 04/27/2019 5:07:51 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Thats a mere few on show duty. You do not know what you are talking about unless you were being sarcastic.


89 posted on 04/27/2019 5:13:45 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: laplata

my Comment was merely that liberal Catholic is an oxymoron

And


90 posted on 04/27/2019 5:21:27 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Jyotishi

$500,000 is a pittance compared to what those parasites will end up costing us. I guess we have to wait for isis to smuggle a nuke over the border and detonate it in an American city before our government gets off their ass and fixes this disaster.


91 posted on 04/27/2019 5:27:12 PM PDT by dougherty (I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo)
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To: rdl6989
how do we even know he was picked?....seems too convenient that we've had this onslaught of leftist garbage in the world all come to power the sae time.....

francis, barry, the little fruit Canada, etc....

92 posted on 04/27/2019 5:29:32 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Jyotishi

Rather than donate, why doesn’t the Pope buy plane tickets to Rome for all of the immigrants who want to illegally enter the U.S.. I’m sure he has room at the Vatican.


93 posted on 04/27/2019 5:36:11 PM PDT by 4integrity
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To: Jyotishi

The Pope aiding and abetting criminals to commit a crime. Never thought I’d see that.


94 posted on 04/27/2019 5:57:58 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: stanne

“And...”

…..end of conversation.


95 posted on 04/27/2019 6:22:35 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Jyotishi

I’m waiting for the free rides to Vatican City. Waiting...waiting...waiting...


96 posted on 04/27/2019 6:31:22 PM PDT by ataDude (.)
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To: Pride in the USA

Yes. And tear down the wall protecting the Vatican since he believes walls are immoral...for everyone else, that is.


97 posted on 04/27/2019 7:21:12 PM PDT by lonevoice (diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
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To: laplata

Well Laplata. I will look forward to our next debate

Enjoy your weekend


98 posted on 04/27/2019 8:09:49 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

Same here. There was no more to say in the last one and I’m sorry if I was short.

Have a good rest of the weekend.


99 posted on 04/27/2019 8:42:17 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Jyotishi

Ummm. NO.


100 posted on 04/27/2019 9:46:50 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Fake news lies, credibility dies.)
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