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Women, health, Islam ... What Pope Francis said on the plane upon his return from Iraq

2021-03-08T15:07:42.739Z


As usual, the sovereign pontiff spoke during the return flight Baghdad-Rome, Monday March 8 in the morning, with the 75 journalists who accompanied him during his trip to Iraq. Interview about the papal theft by the Roman press agency I.Media.


Trips to Hungary, Slovakia, and Lebanon under study

Francis confirmed that he would go to Hungary on September 12, 2021 for the closing of an international Eucharistic congress "

but only for the final mass, not in the country

", he specified, evoking rather wanting to visit Slovakia. neighbor.

Read also: In Iraq, the Pope calls on Eastern Christians not to lose hope

The Pope also revealed that a stopover in Beirut in Lebanon had been envisaged on the road to Iraq at the request of the Patriarch of the Maronites Bechara Rai, but such a short stop for such an important country "

seemed too little

".

But “

Lebanon is suffering

” and “

is so generous in welcoming refugees

”.

As for Argentina, the pope, a native of this country to which he has not returned since his election in 2013, revealed that a visit project had been set up in 2017 but could not be carried out.

So no “

patriphobia

” he said: “

when there is an opportunity, it will have to be done

”.

The Pope finally explained that he had to decide among many invitations and that he was taking advice for that.

But sometimes a trigger can give him the certainty that he must go, for example for Iraq, the reading of a book published in Italy, entitled “

my daughter

” by Nadia Murad which told the story of the Yazidis.

For me this was the inspiration of God to make my decision.

"

François recognizes "

fatigue

" and felt "

in prison

" with confinement

With the eighth year of pontificate, (March 13, Editor's note) I don't know if travel will slow down.

Only, I confide to you that during this trip I got tired much more than during the others.

There are not only the 84 years, there are consequences.

But we will see.

"

As for the question of the risk relating to the Covid faced in Iraq, the Pope, who had been vaccinated before leaving, explained: "

I made the decision, freely, but which came from within (...) But after the prayer and after the awareness of the risks, after all.

"He also explained that while following"

the standards

"to counter the pandemic, he had felt like in prison in the Vatican:"

After these months in prison, really, I felt imprisoned, it is a question of reliving. , to touch the Church, the holy people of God, all peoples.

"

Women are "

more courageous than men

"

Asked about Women's Rights Day on March 8, the Pope who emphasized the courage of women in Iraq during his visit to the city of Qaraqosh, observed

: “Women are more courageous than men, and this is true, but the woman is still humiliated today.

Let's take an extreme example: one of you showed me a list of women's "prices"!

I couldn't believe that women sell themselves and are enslaved.

Even in the center of Rome, the work against trafficking is an everyday job… One of the young women had her ear cut off because she did not bring in enough money, another had been brought from Bratislava to the trunk of the car, slave, removed.

Human trafficking takes place here. ”

In some countries, especially in Africa, there is

mutilation

, Like a rite that must be done.

But women are still slaves and we must fight for the dignity of women.

They are the ones who move the story forward.

Acts of repudiation happen today,

”he continued.

François assumes the "

risks

" of dialogue with Islam

I felt I had to make this pilgrimage of faith and penance and to go to see a great, a sage, a man of God.

We could perceive it, only by listening to it.

He is a person who has this wisdom but also prudence.

He told me that for 10 years, he had not received anyone with political aims, only religious.

"

He was so respectful during our meeting that I felt honored.

He never usually gets up to greet me, but got up to greet me twice.

A humble and wise man.

This meeting made me feel good.

It is a light.

Such sages are everywhere because the wisdom of God has been sown throughout the world.

The same thing happens with the saints, who are not only those who are on the altars but are the everyday saints, of the next door, holy men and women who live their faith. whatever it is, with coherence, fraternity and human values ​​with coherence.

»(…)«

Ayatollah Al-Sistani has a sentence: men are either brothers by religion, or equal by creation.

Fraternity is equality.

But without equality we cannot move forward.

"

Certainly, the Abu Dhabi document on brotherhood which was prepared with Imam al-Tayyeb of Al-Azhar University in Cairo "

in secret for 6 months, praying, reflecting, correcting the text

" signed with the Sunnis has not been signed with the Shiites, but it should be done, believes the Pope.

This text is “

as it is

” but it is a “

first step

”, on the “

path of fraternity.

(…) But how many centuries to get there!

Human fraternity is important, as humans we are all brothers.

We must move forward with other religions.

The Vatican Council II allowed a big step, the institution followed after.

(…) You often have to take risks to take this step.

There are some criticisms, that the Pope is not courageous, that he is unconscious, that he takes steps outside Catholic doctrine, that he is one step away from heresy!

These are risks.

These decisions are always taken by prayer, in dialogue, by asking for advice.

It's a reflection, not a whim.

It is also the line of Vatican Council II.

"

Islamic violence: "

Who sells the weapons to the destroyers?"

"

In Mosul, when I stopped in front of the destroyed church, I had no words.

It was unbelievable.

Not only the church, but the other churches and also a mosque were destroyed.

We see that the latter did not agree with these people.

It's incredible this cruelty… But ours, isn't it?

I can't believe… Cruelty.

I don't mean to say it is starting again but let's look at Africa!

Enmity is created, war, and the so-called Islamic State begins to act again.

It's a very ugly thing.

"

"

But who sells the weapons to these destroyers?"

They didn't make them at home… Who sells the guns?

Who is responsible?

I would at least ask those who sell these weapons the sincerity to say: “we sell the weapons”.

They don't say it!

It's bad ...

"

"

Migration is a human right

"

"

The

migration

is a dual right: the right to migrate and the right not to migrate.

But these people in Iraq don't have both.

Because they cannot not migrate, they are never able to, but neither can they migrate because the world has not yet realized that migration is a human right.

An Italian sociologist told me the other time when talking about winter demography in Italy that within 40 years we will have to '' import '' foreigners so that they can work and pay taxes for our own pensions… You French you have been smarter, for 10 years you have had a law that supports families and your birth rate is very high… But migration is seen as an invasion.

(…)

"

To read also: "We must help the Christians of Iraq to enjoy a real citizenship"

We need urgent measures so that people have work in their country and do not need to migrate but also measures to protect them, to be careful, to take care of the right to immigrate.

It is true that each country must carefully study its capacity to receive because it is not only a question of receiving on a beach but it is necessary to receive, to accompany, to make progress and to integrate them.

The integration of migrants is the key.

In Belgium, for example, the terrorists were Belgians, born in Belgium… But non-integrated Islamist migrants.

Another example, when I went to Sweden, a very young minister came to greet me.

She did not have a special physiognomy typical of the Swedes, because she was the daughter of a migrant and a Swede, so well integrated that she became a minister!

Take these two examples, it makes you think a lot: integrate

! ”

JMG with I.Media Agency

Source: lefigaro

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