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| PHILIPPINES – INDONESIA – MALAYSIAOn World Day of the Poor, Pope Francis spoke of the poor as “the gatekeepers of Heaven” who make access to God who is love easier. He warned against the temptation of “haste” and “everything right now”, which makes us think as “useless” and “disposable” those who are left behind: “elderly, unborn, disabled and poor persons". We are tempted to speak “the language of the self” and not “the language of Jesus”, which is “the language of the you”. “Do I, a Christian, have at least one poor person as a friend?”
“I hope,” said the Pope in Spanish, “that my visit will help to highlight the importance of interreligious dialogue, mutual understanding and fraternal cooperation, especially in the service of the poor, those most in need, and in the service of peace.”
Pope Francis sends a video message to the pilgrims of the Fratello association who have gathered in Lourdes to celebrate the third World Day of the Poor (November 17). He addresses those who are "alone, isolated, abandoned, homeless, expelled from your family or from your country, victim of alcohol, prostitution, illness": "God hears your prayer in a special way". Live the sacraments and be "witness of God's love in your environment".
Receiving participants at the "Promoting Digital Child Dignity - From Concept to Action" Conference, Francis says that tech companies must take responsibility and, while respecting privacy in general, ensure restrictions for "net surfers".
The desire could be fulfilled if - as a press release from the Holy See Press Office states - "the political situation should allow the establishment of a transitional government of national unity in the next 100 days, at the end of the agreement signed in recent days in Uganda" .
At the general audience, Pope Francis warns against the resurgences of anti-Semitism and also remembers that "even today" there are Christians who live the faith "secretly in their homes". An appeal for Burkina Faso, after several attacks cost the lives of 100 people. The audience took place in two places: in the square and in the Paul VI hall where the sick were gathered, due to bad weather.
For five days he has been under the supervision of public security personnel, under pressure. The Party wants to force him to attend a meeting of the "independent" clergy of Fujian. A member of Mindong: Pray for him, because he is very tired.
"And what does the devil envy? Our human nature ”. "And you know why? Because the Son of God became one of us. He cannot tolerate this, he cannot tolerate it ”. "Gossip is a ferocious weapon, it kills". "Gossip kills, slander kills".
Speaking to the Council for an Inclusive Capitalism, Francis recalled Paul VI's statement that "true development cannot be limited to economic growth alone, but must foster the growth of each person and of the whole person".
At the Angelus, Pope Francis proclaims the Christian faith of the Resurrection before the "doubt that touches mankind of all times ... after this earthly pilgrimage, what will become of our life? Will it belong to nothingness, to death? " The "clear certainty of Jesus on the Resurrection is entirely based on the fidelity of God, who is the God of life". A round of applause for a Spanish blessed and a Portuguese saint. An appeal for South Sudan and Bolivia.
On the feast of the dedication of the basilica of St. John Lateran, Pope Francis offers "three little verses" as a gift to the Christians of the city, to the priests, to the members of the pastoral teams. The invitation to a "movement": "GO out to meet others, enter into dialogue with them, listen to them with humility, gratuitousness and poverty of heart". "There is no human heart in which Christ does not want and cannot be reborn". The mobile health clinic in St. Peter's Square at the service of the poor, in preparation for the World Day of the Poor.
“Many times society, through legalistic and inhumane decisions, justified by an alleged search for the good and security, seeks the isolation and detention of those who act against social norms as the final solution to the problems of life in community.” However, no one can change their life if they see nothing on the horizon, even when the they are in for life.
Francis sends a message to the Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer. An agreement that "represents a model of international cooperation not only in the area of environmental protection but also that of the promotion of integral human development".
Christian identity is not about doing things but belonging to Christ. A strong commitment to migrants is purely sociological: no one offers them explicit witness and the announcement of faith. The testimony of the laity is fundamental to healing indifference towards God and towards others in society. Nurturing ad gentes vocations to live in "solicitude for all churches". Christians in Czechoslovakia, China, Vietnam for years in chains with the desire and the prayer to evangelize the world.
