10 June 2019 | Address of His Holiness

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE REUNION OF AID AGENCIES FOR THE ORIENTAL CHURCHES (ROACO)

Consistory Hall

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We hear the plea of persons in flight, crowded on boats in search of hope, not knowing
which ports will welcome them, in a Europe that does open its ports to ships that will
load sophisticated and costly weapons capable of producing forms of destruction that
do not spare even children. This is the hypocrisy I spoke of. Here we can recognize
the cry of Abel rising up to God, as we noted a year ago in Bari, as we joined in prayer
for our fellow Christians of the Middle East. […]