18-10-2014 07:07 PM - edited 18-10-2014 07:08 PM
on 19-10-2014 04:44 PM
Plenty of safe places for them to go to and heaps of room:
LAND AREA:
Saudi Arabia 2,149,690 KM2
Egypt 1,002,450 KM2
Morocco 710,850 KM2
Algeria 2,381,741 KM2
Whereas Italy's land area is only 301,338 KM2 and it is a Christian country!
on 19-10-2014 04:50 PM
I think there is a new "religion" - nothing to do with God, it's based on an ignorance of Islam and from this ignorance sprouts a hatred of all things Islam.
on 19-10-2014 04:53 PM
on 19-10-2014 04:58 PM
Land Area of Victoria, Australia = 237,629 KM2
Italy is only slightly bigger and it has about 70 million people already living there. They don't need any more asylum seekers their economy is suffering. Oil rich Saudi Arabia with over 2 million KM2 should be helping or Algeria.
on 19-10-2014 04:59 PM
The pontiff tossed a wreath of yellow and white chrysanthemums into the sea to commemorate those who died making the passage, imploring host societies to ensure that the arrival of immigrants does not occasion “new and even heavier forms of slavery and humiliation.”
Authorities estimate that as many as 20,000 migrants have died since the late 1990s attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea by boat en route to Europe, with survivors generally ending up in detention centers in settings such as Lampedusa.
The pope insisted that with respect to such suffering, God asks everyone: “Where is your brother, the voice of whose blood reaches all the way to me?”
Francis urged societies receiving immigrants to exhibit “maternal care,” noting that in many cases, migrants also fall victim to human trafficking.
Approximately 10,000 people were on hand for a Mass celebrated by the pope on Lampedusa, including 50 recent immigrants currently housed at a center on the island in the front row.
Roughly an hour before the pope arrived Monday morning, the latest boatload of 165 migrants was met by a ship of the Italian Coast Guard and its occupants taken to a processing center on the island.
“Who is responsible for the blood of these brothers and sisters?” the pope asked, saying that too often, the answer is, “No one.”
“We all answer, ‘It’s not me. I have nothing to do with it. It’s others, but certainly not me,’ ” the pope said.
Francis extended a special greeting to the Muslims among the migrants, noting that the fast of Ramadan is beginning and wishing them “abundant spiritual fruits.”
“I felt the duty to come here today to pray, to perform a gesture of closeness, but also to awaken our consciences to that what happened doesn’t repeat itself,” he said.
Francis compared apathy in the face of the suffering of immigrants to the Gospel story of the Good Samaritan, in which a half-dead man lying in the street is ignored until the Samaritan finally stops to help.
“So many of us, and I include myself, are disoriented,” the pope said. “We’re no longer attentive to the world in which we live. We don’t care about it; we don’t take care of what God created for all; and we’re no longer capable even of taking care of one another.”
on 19-10-2014 05:06 PM
well Deborah just over 60% of this country considers themselves Christian and there are many wonderful Christians involved in really good work supporting asylum seekers and organising against govt policy re: asylum seekers. Then there are those Christians that pretend, that use their religion as an excuse for hideous behaviour and hatred of others, I think they are the minority in Australia but just like my previous post on prejudices states - they are the loudest.
on 19-10-2014 05:21 PM
@ufo_investigations wrote:Plenty of safe places for them to go to and heaps of room:
LAND AREA:
Saudi Arabia 2,149,690 KM2
Egypt 1,002,450 KM2
Morocco 710,850 KM2
Algeria 2,381,741 KM2
Whereas Italy's land area is only 301,338 KM2 and it is a Christian country!
Don't they have any refugees already?
They need to get to somewhere where they can earn a living in order to survive. I'm fairly sure those few countries would not be able to accommodate all the refugees in need of a home.
on 19-10-2014 05:31 PM
@karliandjacko wrote:
@ufo_investigations wrote:Plenty of safe places for them to go to and heaps of room:
LAND AREA:
Saudi Arabia 2,149,690 KM2
Egypt 1,002,450 KM2
Morocco 710,850 KM2
Algeria 2,381,741 KM2
Whereas Italy's land area is only 301,338 KM2 and it is a Christian country!
Don't they have any refugees already?
They need to get to somewhere where they can earn a living in order to survive. I'm fairly sure those few countries would not be able to accommodate all the refugees in need of a home.
Not too mention that all those countries above are mostly desert.
on 19-10-2014 05:42 PM
There are 47 countries in the continent of Africa.
Plenty of places to go and live without placing a burden on Europe and risking their lives crossing the seas.
on 19-10-2014 05:50 PM
@***super_nova*** wrote:
@karliandjacko wrote:
@ufo_investigations wrote:Plenty of safe places for them to go to and heaps of room:
LAND AREA:
Saudi Arabia 2,149,690 KM2
Egypt 1,002,450 KM2
Morocco 710,850 KM2
Algeria 2,381,741 KM2
Whereas Italy's land area is only 301,338 KM2 and it is a Christian country!
Don't they have any refugees already?
They need to get to somewhere where they can earn a living in order to survive. I'm fairly sure those few countries would not be able to accommodate all the refugees in need of a home.
Not too mention that all those countries above are mostly desert.
That's right. Lets just send them to the most arid over crowded places possible. We couldn't expect so called Christian countries to share, now could we.