Rome: Pope Francis made a private pre-dawn visit to Roma’s Landmark on Wednesday for the second year in a row due to the Covid-19 pandemic and condemned the “stone heart” of those who were not moved by migrant suffering.
Francis, wearing a full white coat against the cold, arriving near the steps of Spain Roma before 6:15 a.m.
(0515 GMT), and stayed for 10 minutes.
He prayed and placed a basket of white roses at a 12 meter column base carrying a statue of Madonna.
December 8, the conception party of Immaculate, is a national holiday in Italy and several other Catholic traditional countries.
For the second year in a row, Francis was forced to cancel the traditional afternoon public service that would attract thousands, increasing the possibility of transmission.
A Vatican statement said he had prayed to cure the victims of Covid-19, war and climate change, and asked Madonna to “Melt the careful rock from those who put the wall to keep the pain of others from them”.
The crisis of the world migration is a theme at his recent travel center to Cyprus and Greece, which ended on Monday.
During the trip, he condemned the exploitation of migrants for political purposes, stapprit the global indifference to their situation of “crisis ship civilization” and regretted that Europe was in “wall and barbed wire era”.
On Greek Island Lesbos, home to several thousand refugees, he said it “troublesome” that some European leaders wanted to use public funds to build a wall and put on a barbed wire to make immigrants coming out ..
Prime Minister Polandadz Mateusz Mestusz had called the EU to be together The same financed the border wall to stem migrant waves that came from the Middle East through Belarus to Poland.