Pope Says “we are brothers and kissed the feet of Refugees as a guesture to brotherhood.”
Pope Francis condemned the attack in Brussels and Said about those behind such violence :” There are manufacturers, arms dealers who want blood , not peace ; they want the war , not fraternity, ” the pope said. “You , we , all of us together , of different religions, different cultures , but children of the same Father , brothers — and there , those poor people, who buy weapons to wreck fraternity , ” Francis said Thursday . ” Today , at this time , when I do the same act of Jesus washing the feet of twelve of you , let us all make a gesture of brotherhood , and let us all say : ‘ We are different , we are different , we have different cultures and religions , but we are brothers and we want to live in peace . ‘”“Migrants are our brothers and sisters in search of a better life, far away from poverty, hunger , exploitation and the unjust distribution of the planet’s resources which are meant to be equitably shared by allPope Francis washed and kissed the feet of Muslim , Orthodox , Hindu and Catholic refugees in a moving ceremony during Holy Thursday Mass at a refugee centre on the outskirts of Rome as reported by Luigi Navarro & Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press Thursday, Mar. 24, 2016.
They were refugees from Mali , Eritrea, Syria and
Pakistan. They were Muslim , Hindu , Catholic
and Coptic Christians . And one by one , Pope
Francis knelt down before these migrants on
Holy Thursday and washed their feet .
The ritual , performed in a center for asylum
seekers outside of Rome , comes amid anti-
immigrant sentiment in Europe and in the wake
of a terrorist attack in Brussels , for which the
Islamic State has claimed responsibility.
All of us together , Muslims , Hindus , Catholics ,
Copts , Evangelical [ Protestants ] brothers and
sisters — children of the same God — we want
to live in peace , integrated , ” Francis said during
his homily .The foot – washing ritual became a part of Holy
Thursday Mass in the 1950 s . Jesus washed the
feet of his 12 apostles at the Last Supper . The
symbolic act also imitates Jesus’ s gesture of
servitude .A number of the migrants whose feet were
washed by the pope had tears streaming down
their faces. You may like to Read:The Pope who won the heart of immigrants at the time of Prophet Muhammad(pbuh)Nasreen started with 100 Darood Sharif and now reads abundant azkar daily. Alhumdulillah, Now she spends close to three hours in dhikr. Would you like to build your dhikr habit too?
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