Posted on 04/30/2019 2:22:44 PM PDT by shove_it
Vatican City, Apr 29 (ANI) – Pope Francis recently donated USD 500,000 to help migrants in Mexico who are attempting to enter the United States, reinforcing the pontiff’s stance of welcoming migrants rather than stigmatizing them.
The funds will reportedly be distributed among 27 projects, undertaken by 16 Mexican dioceses and religious congregations, that made the call for assistance to provide food, lodging, and other necessities to the migrants, reports Sputnik.
“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 which has been tasked with handling the funds, outlined.
The organization added that the migrants “were stranded, unable to enter the United States, without a home or livelihood,” and that is why the Catholic Church hosted “thousands of them in hotels within the dioceses or religious congregations, providing basic necessities,” including lodging and clothing.
The Pope had earlier outlined that the migrants bring with them the wealth of a multicultural and multi-ethnic world, urging nations to not be “afraid” of them...
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Churches are burning in Europe and he wants the same for the U.S.
$500k?
Who money B DAT?
How much did Bergoglio donate to the bombing victims in Sri Lanka?
And I happen to know personally that they will be coming up at least a little bit shorter in the collection plate this last weekend. They evidentially have more money than they need.
Open up the Vatican of you want to impress us
At the current rate of “my grants” coming in what’s that 5$ each?
Nazi money the Vatican hid for them.
I don’t think the pope himself has $500K to donate. So, it’s the Catholics’ tithes and offerings sending money to the illegals.
Is it possible that the Vatican is a video game?
Do the math, that is $6.66 per "migrant".
Pope Francis is doing evil towards the U.S.A.
Pope Marx fights Capitalism?
Whoda guessed?
DEFUND anti-American collectives.
Most news reports put the figure of the migrants being given the $500k at 75,000 people. $6.66 each.
That $500K came out of MY contributions to the Sunday collection basket.
I am rip-snorting mad now.
It’s becoming more obvious that donating money to the church under this pope is like donating money to a PAC organization.
Who knows how it will be applied and at who’s inconvenience?
The NAACP has been this way for at least the last 30 years.
Same thing with AARP to some extent, which is why I won’t join.
this is what happens when you dangle from past indiscretions
Take a look at those tall fortress walls of the Vatican.
It would be a shame if some low life were to spray graffiti all over those flat, open surfaces. Some folks call that
‘Art’.
Time to pull their tax exemption.
Well, it wasn’t from our donation. It all stays local.
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