{"id":44213,"date":"2023-09-23T13:36:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T13:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/pope-urges-europe-against-treating-migrants-as-invaders"},"modified":"2023-09-23T13:48:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T13:48:57","slug":"pope-urges-europe-against-treating-migrants-as-invaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/pope-urges-europe-against-treating-migrants-as-invaders","title":{"rendered":"Pope urges Europe against treating migrants as invaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>Pope Francis on Saturday urged European governments to welcome migrants instead of viewing them as invaders, striding into in a hugely sensitive political debate again inflamed by mass arrivals on the second day of his visit to France\u2019s Mediterranean port of Marseille.<\/p>\n

The pontiff made the comments hours before he leads a mass in Marseille\u2019s main stadium \u2014 usually the venue for rugby or football matches \u2014 in a gigantic event due to be attended by French President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who risk their lives at sea do not invade, they look for welcome,\u201d Francis said in a speech closing a conference of bishops and young people from around the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n

Noting the risk to the lives of migrants if they are not taken to safety, he warned against turning \u201cthe Mediterranean, the mare nostrum, from the cradle of civilisation into the mare mortuum, the graveyard of dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Francis\u2019 35-minute speech drew a standing ovation from his audience, but his position on migration was unlikely to please Macron and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, who were both present and plan tougher measures to control arrivals.<\/p>\n

The pope\u2019s forceful interventions come as the migration debate has been stoked by mass arrivals on the Italian island of Lampedusa last week.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a monument to people lost at sea on his arrival in Marseille on Friday, the pontiff had insisted that \u201cpeople who are at risk of drowning when abandoned on the waves must be rescued\u201d.<\/p>\n

He thanked aid groups rescuing migrants in danger at sea, condemning efforts to prevent their work as \u201cgestures of hate\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Tens of thousands expected \u2013<\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of people are expected to watch Francis as he travels through the streets of Marseille later Saturday before celebrating mass for almost 60,000 people in the city\u2019s famed Velodrome stadium.<\/p>\n

Thousands were already starting to pour into the iconic venue which only on Thursday had hosted France\u2019s clash with Namibia in the Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n

Clutches of black- or white-robed priests and nuns were scattered through the crowds while volunteers tasked with distributing communion wafers during the service were taking up position.<\/p>\n

Up to 100,000 are expected to line the Avenue du Prado for his \u201cpopemobile\u201d tour and many roads are decked out with the white-and-yellow colours of the Vatican.<\/p>\n

Francky Domingo, a Beninese man who heads a group of undocumented migrants in Marseille, said he hoped the pontiff\u2019s visit would \u201cgive us back a little hope\u201d and \u201ccalm the political tensions\u201d.<\/p>\n

Around 40 people have been killed in shootings in Marseille this year, and Macron has promised billions of euros to upgrade city infrastructure in a bid to stop the downward spiral.<\/p>\n

Not everyone has welcomed the pope\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n

Some politicians on the left have criticised Macron\u2019s decision to attend Saturday\u2019s mass as an infringement of state secularism.<\/p>\n

Others on the right have attacked Francis for \u201cinterfering\u201d in domestic politics.<\/p>\n

\u2013 \u2018Pushed aside\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n

The pontiff did nothing Saturday to dodge such allegations, appearing to weigh in on two of Macron\u2019s projects \u2014 assisted dying and inscribing the right to abortion in the constitution.<\/p>\n

Old people risk being \u201cpushed aside, under the false pretences of a supposedly dignified and \u2018sweet\u2019 death that is more \u2018salty\u2019 than the waters of the sea,\u201d Francis warned.<\/p>\n

He also spoke of \u201cunborn children, rejected in the name of a false right to progress, which is instead a retreat into the selfish needs of the individual\u201d.<\/p>\n

Francis\u2019 messages may have less resonance given Catholicism\u2019s long decline in France.<\/p>\n

Fewer than a third of people still say they are Catholic, and only a fraction of those regularly attend mass.<\/p>\n

The country\u2019s religious heritage nevertheless still has enormous weight, with Macron showing off progress in restoring the fire-ravaged Notre Dame cathedral in central Paris to Britain\u2019s King Charles III this week.<\/p>\n

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