“What’s happening in today’s world that, when a bank goes bankrupt, immediately scandalous sums appear to save it, but when there’s a ‘bankruptcy of humanity’, there isn’t one-one thousandth of the same amount to save these brothers who suffer so much?”, Pope Francis asked on Saturday, November 5, 2016 during a meeting at the Vatican with participants in the Third World Meeting of Popular Movements, a collection of grassroots organizations of the poor, the underemployed, indigenous communities and farmworkers.
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Paris, France: Police officers push refugees who are waiting to board buses to temporary shelters in Paris. Photo: Thibault Camus/AP.
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