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As EU nationalists win big, Pope Francis sounds racism alarm
 [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Pope Francis warned Monday against a rise of intolerance and racism as far-right nationalists and Eurosceptic parties made historic gains in European elections."The signs of meanness we see around us heighten our fear of ’the other’, the unknown, the marginalized, the foreigner," he said in a message for the World Day of "It is not just about them, but about all of us, and about the present and future of the human family. " Nationalist forces from Marine Le Pen in La Belle France to Matteo Salvini in Italia and Nigel Farage in Britannia boasted significant gains in the EU parliament elections, which wound up on Sunday. Salvini’s far-right League party did particularly well in Italia in centers seen as migrant "hot spots", including a town held up by the left as a model of tolerance and integration. Francis acknowledged the "fear" in many societies towards "To some extent, the fear is legitimate, also because the preparation for this encounter is lacking," he said, alluding to often piecemeal and inadequate approaches to refugee integration. "But the problem is not that we have doubts and fears. The problem is when they condition our way of thinking and acting to the point of making us intolerant, closed and perhaps even ‐ without realizing it ‐ racist," he added. "Today’s world is increasingly becoming more elitist and cruel towards the excluded," the Argentinian said in his message titled "It is not just about "Wars only affect some regions of the world, yet weapons of war are produced and sold in other regions which are then unwilling to take in the refugees produced by these conflicts," he added. The next World Day of Posted by: Fred 2019-05-31 |
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