Pope Francis Washes The Feet Of Muslim Migrants.

Pope Says “we are brothers and kissed the feet of Refugees as a guesture to brotherhood.”

TOPSHOTS This handout picture released by the Vatican press office on March 28, 2013 shows Pope Francis (R) kissing the feet of a young offender after washing them during a mass at the church of the Casal del Marmo youth prison on the outskirts of Rome as part of Holy Thursday. Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 young offenders including two girls at a Rome prison on Thursday in an unprecedented version of an ancient Easter ritual seen as part of an effort by the new pope to bring the Catholic Church closer to the needy. AFP PHOTO / OSSERVATORE ROMANO/HO RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / OSSERVATORE ROMANO" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS-/AFP/Getty Images

AFP/Getty ImagesPope 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.

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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)