Showing posts with label Vatican City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vatican City. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Jeremy, could you please ask Tony to translate Francis’s letter in Russian, so to allow Donald to read it?

Rome, Italy: Pope Francis shakes hands with Ivanka Trump during a private audience at the Vatican. Then Francis gave U.S. President Donald Trump a signed copy of his 2017 peace message whose title is “Nonviolence — A Style of Politics for Peace”, and a copy of his 2015 encyclical letter on the need to protect the environment from the effects of climate change. “Well, I’ll be reading them”, Trump said. Photo: Osservatore Romano/Reuters.

Sunday, November 6, 2016

The Importance of Not Being Arcovazzi

“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.

Paris, France: Police officers push refugees who are waiting to board buses to temporary shelters in Paris. Photo: Thibault Camus/AP.

Monday, May 30, 2016

Round trip ticket

http://tg24.sky.it/tg24/mondo/photogallery/2016/05/28/migranti-papa-francesco.html
“Migrants are not a danger, they are in danger”, Pope Francis said welcoming 500 children who travelled on a special train from the Calabria region to the Vatican to meet him on Saturday, May, 28.

Pope Francis greets migrants and refugees at the Moria refugee camp on April 16, 2016 near the port of Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesbos. Photo: AFP/Getty Images.

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Urbi et Orbi

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/16/bernie-sanders-meets-pope-francis-at-the-vatican
“I told him that I was incredibly appreciative of the incredible role that he is playing in this planet in discussing issues about the need for an economy based on morality, not greed”, Sanders said. [Read more].

A small group of American Sanders fans living in Rome descended on the Vatican for the occasion, holding a sign that read “Rome is Berning”. Photo: Stephanie Kirchgaessner for The Guardian.