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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.

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