Brazil President Criticizes Pope Francis for Claiming Amazon Region Belongs to Whole World

LifeSite News ^ | 2/14/20 | Paul Smeaton

[marshmallow]

'Pope Francis said yesterday the Amazon is his, the world's, everyone's. Well, the pope may be Argentinian, but God is Brazilian.'

February 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has seemingly criticized Pope Francis for asserting in his exhortation released this week that the Amazon region belongs to people other than the nations among which the territory is spread.

Speaking yesterday, Bolsonaro said: “Pope Francis said yesterday the Amazon is his, the world’s, everyone’s. Well, the pope may be Argentinian, but God is Brazilian.”

In section 5 of Querida Amazonia, published on Wednesday, Pope Francis stated that he was addressing his exhortation on the Amazon region “to the whole world.” He wrote: “I am doing so to help awaken their affection and concern for that land which is also ‘ours,’ and to invite them to value it and acknowledge it as a sacred mystery.”

Bolsonaro has spoken out forcefully in the past against suggestions that the Amazon belongs to the whole world. Speaking at the United Nations in New York last year, he said: “It is a fallacy to say that the Amazon is the heritage of humankind, and a misconception, as confirmed by scientists, to say that our Amazonian forests are the lungs of the world.”

When Bolsonaro was elected in 2018, Catholics and pro-life campaigners described him as someone who could turn Brazil “from being a promoter of the Culture of Death to a defender of the Culture of Life.”

[ebb tide]

Another Catholic doctrine from which I feel liberated is purgatory, which is just screamingly unbiblical.

What "Hell" do you think Christ descended into after His Crucifixion on Good Friday?

[Albion Wilde]

Yesterday Pope Francis held an “informal meeting” with former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as “Lula.”
Lula was arrested in April of 2018 because of corruption... sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment... released in November of last year. He claims... lack of evidence...
As president, Lula had strongly supported the cause of homosexuals and abortionists in Brazil... issued a legislative reform initiative securing abortion as a “human right” and imposing socialist and homosexual ideologies in schools and in the media. ... intended to ban crucifixes from all official government buildings. ...introduced pro-homosexual educational materials for children as young as 7 to 12...
In 2018, Pope Francis met with allies of Lula in Rome, and also...allegedly compared Lula’s sufferings in prison to the persecution of Jesus.

Outrageous fake pope. Here is Bolsonaro a short while ago: