ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES AND THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS
Al Masah Hotel, Cairo
[…] The generous hospitality shown more than two thousand years ago remains in the collective memory of humanity and is a source of abundant blessings that continue to expand. As a result, Egypt is a land that in some sense we all feel to be our own! As you say, “Misr um al-dunya” – “Egypt is the mother of the world”. Today too, this land welcomes millions of refugees from different countries, including Sudan, Eritrea, Syria and Iraq, refugees whom you make praiseworthy efforts to integrate into Egyptian society. […]
