Pope Francis washes the feet of Muslim migrants.

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 all Pope 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)