Pope Francis Christmas message to the world.
Pope Francis said that the world during Christmas is often obsessed with gifts, feasting, and self-centeredness needed more humility.
Pope Francis urges the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics to feel compassion for children at Christmas season.
Late Saturday on Christmas Eve, Pope Francis delivered his Christmas day message addressing to a 10,000-strong crowd.
In his speech, the leader of the Catholic Church urges the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics to feel compassion for children, notably victims of war, migration and homelessness but also those “not allowed to be born.”
In a recent news report of Manila Bulletin, Pope Francis publicly denounce that Christmas had been taken “taken hostage” by dazzling materialism that puts God in the shadows and blinds many to the needs of the hungry, the migrants, and the war-weary.
“Let us allow the child in the manger to challenge us, but let us also allow ourselves to be challenged by the children of today’s world,” he said, speaking in St. Peter’s Square.
The Leader of the Christian church pointed out that Many of the wealthy worlds had to be reminded that the message of Christmas was humility, simplicity, and mystery.
Pope Francis urged the faithful to avoid indifference. As many people during this season, are often obsessed with gifts, feasting, and self-centeredness needed more humility.
“Let us also allow ourselves to be challenged by the children of today’s world, who are not lying in a cot caressed with the affection of a mother and father, but rather suffer the squalid mangers that devour dignity: hiding underground to escape bombardment, on the pavements of a large city, at the bottom of a boat over-laden with immigrants,” he said.
Furthermore, in his message, he is calling for peace in Syria and other countries “scarred by war.”
He said that everyone should be reminded that those suffering today are children.
Children are “hiding underground to escape bombardment” or “on the pavements of a large city, at the bottom of a boat overladen with immigrants,” he said.
Pope Francis, who turned 80 earlier this month, made six foreign trips this year, and oversaw many events and ceremonies.
He has wished Christmas peace for people scarred by wars and those who lost loved ones to terrorism that he says is sowing “fear and death” in many cities and countries.
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