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| Pope Francis reneges on offer to take in Christian refugees |
| 2016-04-24 |
| [NYPOST] A Christian brother and sister from Syria felt blessed to have been among the dozen refugees selected to start a new life in Italia -- but now say their savior, Pope Francis, abandoned them on a Greek island, according to a report. Roula and Malek Abo, who had been housed in a refugee camp on Lesbos, said they thanked their lucky stars when they found out the Vatican had selected them during the pontiff’s visit to the island last week, the Daily Mail reported. Their dreams were shattered, though, when they were informed the following day that they would not be traveling to Rome. Instead, three Muslim families were taken. Asked why they were all Muslim, Francis said there was something wrong with the papers of a Christian family on the list. The siblings arrived in Greece on April 1 -- 10 days after a controversial European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... deal called for asylum-seekers in Greece to be returned to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Their hopes to avoid deportation now hinge on their applications for asylum. "If they can do this for 12 people, they can do it for more," Roula, 22, told the paper. "If you have promised to take people back to Italia, will something like registration papers stand in your way?" Community Sant’Egidio, the charity that organized the trip, and the Vatican would not explain the process involved in choosing the "The problem here is the three Syrians arrived after the March 20 deadline. They arrived just after the agreement between the European Union and Turkey," front man Massimiliano Signifredi told the Daily Mail. "Our staff went to Lesbos and spoke with the people who were selected. But everything was decided by the Vatican," he said. "The question why the pope took only Muslims is difficult to understand and he was suffering, I think, because he wanted to do something also for Christians as the chief of the Catholic Church. But he couldn’t because there is this international agreement [with the EU]," he said. The Vatican declined comment. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 I hear that Benedict XVI is quite healthy still. "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." Maybe the wrong pope retired |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2016-04-24 21:10 |
| #9 newc, thanks. Entertaining, motivating reading, as usual. I'll try digging up that Twitter feed when I'm halfway organized. I should stress that while I'm inexplicably permitted to speak through Rantburg, I'd never presume to speak for Rantburg, let alone weigh in on anyone's right to post. Rock on! |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2016-04-24 16:15 |
| #8 as some one on Instapundit commented: "He makes the question "Is the Pope Catholic" non-rhetorical. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2016-04-24 13:31 |
| #7 When is Marx to be made a saint by the first non-christian pope? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2016-04-24 07:28 |
| #6 You do not know who you work for. Why am I thinking "useful idiots" and "Hell" at the same time? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-04-24 03:42 |
| #5 And screw that fake pope |
| Posted by: newc 2016-04-24 03:01 |
| #4 Flattery gets you everywhere Zenobia Floger6220. I cannot believe rantburg has put up with me either. My angry swear words and self righteous pinions. I have regrets of staining this Family site with vulgar representations distaste for the perverted turns of this world. I'm embarrassed I sink so low and use gutter language for what should be a well written Synod of current events with eloquence worthy of Shakespeare. I used to have a code for writing (not really). You should see my twitter account! It's magnificent! I lost everyone pretty much right after I started it and cussed these same peoples out. I'm so ronery. Anyways, Thanks for putting up with it. I really could have shown all of you more respect, but these days, who knows where that really is coming from anymore? |
| Posted by: newc 2016-04-24 02:47 |
| #3 With utmost respect (and a dash of quaking terror); questions wholly rhetorical, natch... A newc kind of mind: Anaxagoras? His pure righteous anger: cantankerous! Old soldier, or spook? Nous, news, noose, or nuke? For Rantburg he's almost too rancorous. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2016-04-24 01:45 |
| #2 So I guess the wall around the Vatican's not coming down then, Pope Francis? |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-04-24 00:54 |
| #1 What a useless man. not that he kicked them out of the popemobile into dusty camp, but that he said he would take them and expect everyone else to take them To hell with you pope. You are adverse to all wisdom and knowledge of Heaven you pre-madonna communist scumbag. To hell with you. You do not know who you work for. |
| Posted by: newc 2016-04-24 00:45 |