Pope Francis calls on Europe to take in refugees -- despite the concerns of some

[pnwmom]

that the refugees are of a different culture and religion.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/refugees-keep-streaming-into-europe-as-crisis-continues-unabated/2015/09/06/8a330572-5345-11e5-b225-90edbd49f362_story.html

MUNICH — Issuing a broad appeal to Europe’s Catholics, Pope Francis on Sunday called on “every” parish, religious community, monastery and sanctuary to take in one refugee family — an appeal that, if honored, would offer shelter to tens of thousands.

Francis delivered his call as thousands of asylum-seekers detained for days in Hungary streamed into Germany and Austria, and as a small but rising number of volunteers were offering to take some in. But although the pope’s appeal was greeted with applause in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City, some Germans were asking how far their country could go in receiving more refugees.

The pope, who has thrust himself into polarizing debates over climate change and free-market economics, has again entered the fray, this time over how Europe should handle its largest wave of refugees since the Balkan wars of the 1990s. The majority of those coming are Muslims from Syria, Iraq and other nations, and Francis weighed in as anti-migrant politicians, including senior European leaders, are wielding religion as a weapon.

Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, where Roman Catholicism is the largest religion, last week proclaimed that what he called Europe’s Christian identity is under threat because “those arriving have been raised in another religion, and represent a radically different culture.”

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[riderinthestorm]

1. I actually do wonder @ how this will work

such radically different notions of female empowerment, halal and haram food, child discipline, schooling for females, covering in the home... It's gonna be a wrench.

Not necessarily in a bad way though. The Syrians will get cultural immersion in a way that's typically denied to them as they usually land in segregated ghettos - here they land in a real neighborhood with real Germans/Austrians/Italians/French etc....

While the host families get a chance to see a Muslim family and deeply interact with them daily.

Win win really.

Again, the Pope impresses (on this issue)

[moondust]

2. .

[sabrina 1]

3. Every NATO country that joined the various invasions and the arming of terrorists, see Syria,

and of course Libya, on the PRETEXT that it was to protect people's human rights, have now been exposed as the liars they are and were.

Those same leaders, are simply APPALLED at the notion of the people whose countries they helped turn into hell on earth, should DARE to flee the violence THEY brought to those nations.

Those sentiments they claimed were the reason, humanitarian missions, seem to have gone right out the window now that they got what they wanted and have zero interest, nor ever did, in humanitarianism.

Shame on all of them, THEY should have to take them into their homes, Cameron, Hollande, Merkel and the rest of the 'willing' who CREATED this horror, not to forget Blair of course who started it all over there with his outright lies, all of them should have to hand over their homes to those whose lives and countries they helped destroy.

And THIS country, Cheney, Bush and the rest of them should have to do the same.

Then let the trials begin. They are way overdue.

[pampango]

4. Orban is a RW politician. Of course, he worries about "another religion" and "another culture".

Feeding the fear of "others" is what RW politicians do.