I got the following piece as extract from the interview the Pope granted A catholic publication La croix on migration and Christianity in Europe
With regard to mass migration in Europe, the pope said that the gates
should not be opened unreasonably wide; rather, one must ask why there
are so many migrants. He zeroes in on wars, which causes hunger. These
wars exist because of arms manufacturers and arms traffickers. There is
also the issue of unemployment"More generally, this raises the question of a world economic system
that has descended into the idolatry of money," he said. "The great
majority of humanity's wealth has fallen into the hands of a minority of
the population."Moreover, he
said that there is a need to integrate migrants rather than
"ghettoize" them. In his view, it is possible for Christians and
Muslims to co-exist, and there is "the need for Europe to rediscover its
capacity to integrate." For him, there is not so much a fear of Islam
but of ISIS and its efforts to conquer, a principle that is, in part,
drawn from Islam. He, however, said that Jesus sending out his disciples
has a similar idea of conquest.
I do not know what exactly the pope had in mind for comparing the Islamic/ISIS' conquest to the early Apostles' efforts at bringing the gospel to the end of the earth as commanded by Jesus Christ.The early Apostle only went out with the word of God and the Holy Ghost in them.They never did their 'evangelical conquest' with guns,machetes and arrows,bombs and all kinds of weapons of mass destruction.Therefore,it is not fair at all to compare the two in this manner,lest He is misunderstood.
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