Posted on 09/13/2019 6:23:20 PM PDT by marshmallow
Pope Francis has accused Britain of placing greed over humanity by refusing to hand over a disputed island archipelago in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius.
In an unusually muscular foreign policy intervention, the pope suggested that Britain’s failure to heed a United Nations vote calling on it relinquish sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory was uncivilised.
“Not all things that are right for humanity are right for our pocket, but international institutions must be obeyed,” the pope told journalists as he left Mauritius at the end of a three-nation tour of Africa.
“If there is an internal dispute or conflict among countries, you go there to resolve it like brothers, like civil people.”
The United Nations General Assembly passed a motion in May calling on Britain to return the remote but strategically important territory, also known as the Chagos Islands, to Mauritius, which had administered them as a dependency in the colonial era.
For the past 50 years the main Chagossian island of Diego Garcia has been the site of a US military base. The population of the islands, numbering about 1,500 people at the time, was evicted by Britain in the Sixties and Seventies to pave the way for the construction of the base.
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Give Vatican City back to indigenous people you stole it from...
Christians don’t accuse others of greed for keeping what they own. Communists do.
The pope doesn’t even pretend to be a watermelon any more... He is 100% commie red!
Go back to the Vatican and shut up.
Pound sand Popester.
Wait til the Argentine Jesuit does the Falklands.
Geez, the Communist Pope speaks again.
How many divisions does the pope have?
You don’t like walls:
Take down YOURS.
You don’t like guns:
Confiscate those of your Swiss Guards.
Was Henry VIII on to something after all?
“For the past 50 years the main Chagossian island of Diego Garcia has been the site of a US military base.“
And that’s the real reason.
L
Once again it seems everyone thinks they are a better Roman Catholic than the Pope. /s
Francis is just pining for the Papal Lands the church relinquished to Mussolini.
These guys think it’s back in the 15th century when the church was in bed with royalty.
The church has a new bed partner.
In this case, they’re probably right.
You’re worried about the land while slavery is still an institution in the country? This man is an utter fool and antichrist.
Who made the Commie Pope God??
This pope is Jesuit which doesn’t necessarily mean he is Catholic.
The Brits probably reply that the Pope’s “demand” is
‘complete and utter Tosh!’, meaning nonsense.
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