Anonymous ID: 789204 Jan. 7, 2019, 10:18 a.m. No.4647182   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7210 >>7219 >>7257 >>7385

Pope Francis warns of resurgent nationalism, urges help for migrants

 

Pope Francis warned on Monday against a resurgence of nationalist and populist movements and criticized countries that try to solve the migration crisis with unilateral or isolationist actions.

 

The pope, speaking to diplomats in an annual speech known informally as his “state of the world” address, suggested such movements and closed-door policies were turning the clock back 100 years to the dangerous period between the world wars.

 

Relationships within the international community “are experiencing a period of difficulty, with the resurgence of nationalistic tendencies,” he said, making dialogue between countries and hurting the most vulnerable members of society, including migrants.

 

Populist anti-immigrant parties made gains in a number of countries last year, including Italy, France, the Netherlands, Hungary, Brazil and Poland.

 

In the United States, a partial government shutdown entered its third week as President Donald Trump has pledged not to bend in his demand for a wall along the southern border with Mexico..

 

In his hour-long speech, Francis several times mentioned the League of Nations, which was set up after World War One to promote peace but failed to stop the nationalist and populist movements that helped lead to World War Two.

 

“The reappearance of these impulses today is progressively weakening the multilateral system,” he told envoys from 183 countries in the speech, which touched on the situation in many countries.

 

CRITICIZES UNILATERALISM

While migration has led to diffidence and unilateral actions by governments, particularly in Europe and North America, the international community has a duty to defend refugees and migrants, he said.

 

“I do not believe that partial solutions can exist for so universal an issue,” he said.

 

Francis praised the United Nations’ Global Compact on Migration, which set objectives for how the movement of people can be managed. The United States, Italy, Hungary and Poland are among nations that boycotted the meeting in Morocco last year.

 

The pope again condemned the arms trade and possession of nuclear weapons, lamenting that past efforts at nuclear disarmament had given way to “the search for new and increasingly sophisticated and destructive weapons”.

 

He called for a more decisive commitment to combating global warming and for “rethinking our relationship with our planet”.

 

Calling sexual abuse of children “one of the plagues of our time”, he said a meeting of key bishops at the Vatican in February would aim to “shed full light on the facts and to alleviate the wounds caused by such crimes”.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-diplomats/pope-francis-warns-of-resurgent-nationalism-urges-help-for-migrants-idUSKCN1P115Z

 

Vatican News Paid Tribute to 60th Anniversary of Cuban Revolution in Deleted Post

https://pjmedia.com/faith/vatican-news-paid-tribute-to-60th-anniversary-of-cuban-revolution-in-deleted-post/

 

KEK, supposedly, does this makes me a "muhcatholicshill" or some stupid shit?

Anonymous ID: 789204 Jan. 7, 2019, 10:34 a.m. No.4647424   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7450

Article on the bibi announcement:

NETANYAHU: I DEMAND THE CHANCE TO FACE STATE WITNESSES LIVE

 

This comes in the wake of over half the voters believing that Netanyahu must resign if Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit indicts him, according to a poll.

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded to have the chance to face the state's witnesses in the corruption cases against him on live television, the prime minister said in an address Monday.

 

Netanyahu said that he had made the same demand twice before, and was rejected. What is the prosecution afraid of? Netanyahu asked.

 

"There is nonstop pressure on the Attorney-General to indict me," Netanyahu said. "Maybe if I proposed a new disengagement or divided Jerusalem or abandoned our security they would leave me alone, but I will never do that."

 

"If you're going to say there's a bribe, why don't you do a complete job?" the prime minister asked. "Lapid met with Noni Mozes dozens of times and deleted all documentation of the meetings, and supported Noni's law to close Israel Hayom and got positive media coverage."

 

The address was announced by a Likud spokesman and not the Prime Minister's Office, an indication the address will be political.

 

While Netanyahu's spokespeople had earlier declined to speculate about the topic. Netanyahu will be meeting with his legal defense team, led by attorney Amit Hadad, ahead of the address.

 

In recent days, Netanyahu has complained about reports that Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit intends to announce his plans to indict Netanyahu pending a hearing before the April 9 election and as early as February. The prime minister has insisted that if such an announcement is made, the hearing also take place before the election.

 

Police have recommended bribery charges in Case 1000, the expensive gift affair, Case 2000, the newspaper collusion scandal, and Case 4000, the Bezeq-Walla deal.

 

The Jerusalem Post's Lahav Harkov is following Netanyahu's announcement live on Twitter.

 

https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Netanyahu-to-deliver-dramatic-announcement-this-evening-576592