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Pope Benedict urges immigrant tolerance

Pope Benedict XVI is urging the world's peoples to be more welcoming of immigrants and refugees to their countries.

In a message released Wednesday in Vatican City, the Roman Catholic Pontiff said "special attention" should be given to refugees and exiles, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.

The Pontiff also exhorted people to "live fully in fraternal love without distinction of type and without discrimination, in the conviction that anyone who needs us is our fellow man and we can help them," Vatican officials said.

Benedict's message was presented by the president of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino. He told ANSA that "the problem of immigration is not resolved by closing borders.

"There are over 200 million people who live outside their countries of origin, driven by misery, hunger, violence, wars, ethnic rivalries, but also by the desire for a better life."

Copyright 2008 by United Press International.

This news arrived on: 10/09/2008

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10-09-2008 19:00

David wrote:

History

History clearly shows just because you are RIGHT does not make you popular and being WRONG does not make you unpopular ONLY TIME WILL TELL

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10-09-2008 18:49

RH wrote:

Pope & immigrant tolerance

I can accept and be tolerant with immigrants as long as they come here legally, under authority, work and pay taxes.

Scripture tells us: "Let every person be subordinate to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been established by God.-----This is why you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God--." Romans 13:1 ff.

Praise God!

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10-09-2008 16:00

molly wrote:

pope and immigrant tolerance

maybe he should put his money where his mouth is and pick up the bill for them. its easy to be tolerant when it doesn't cost you anything

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