Kosice: Pope Francis went to the far east of Slovak on Tuesday to meet Rome the country in the inclusion movement for minority groups that were most socially excluded in Slovakia, which had long suffered discrimination, marginalization, and poverty.
Francis’s visit to the IX Lining settlement in Kosice was one of the highlights of the four-day pilgrimage to Hungary and Slovakia.
It was his first journey since undergoing intestinal surgery in July and marked the restart of his globen flood after almost two years of hiatus coronavirus.
Lunik IX is the largest around 600 shabby, separate settlement where 20% the poorest of 400,000 Rome Slovakia lives.
Most deficiencies such as flowing water or waste systems, gas or electricity.
“Pope Peropher” has been trying to meet with the most marginal society during foreign trips, ensuring to always enter visits to the slums, ghetto, or prison where it can offer words of encouragement, solidarity, and welcome.
Francis started the day by celebrating the mass of the Byzantine rites in Presov, near the second city of Slovakia, Kosice, in recognition of the believers of the country’s Greek Catholics.
The organizer expects around 40,000 people, and before Francis’s arrival, they have filled the outer arena as a choir singing song.
“We came here at 3am.
To get the best place,” said Slavka Marcinakova, a local resident of Presov.
“The Pope came to Slovak – you have a chance like this only once in a lifetime, we are very happy for that.” Among those who were ready for the masses was Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, old aide to St.
John Paul II, Poland Pope which made three visits to Slovakia for a quarter of a century.
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Michal Ojodar, a Greek-Catholic Priest of Kosice, said Francis’s visit would encourage local demons who had persecution under the administration of the Communist Atheist.
“Our church suffered a lot in the past because we were loyal to the Pope,” he said.
“Therefore, we feel grateful that the Pope came to our territory and that we could meet him directly.” Francis, 84, has appeared in a good shape during his trip, clearly enjoyed returning to the road again after Coronavirus, and then the intestinal operation in July, made it confined in the Vatican.
On Monday, he was welcomed by the Slovak Jewish community in a significant moment of reconciliation, given the decade of distrust and tension after the Holocaust, when 68,000 Slovak Jews perished in the Nazi death camps.
Slovakia was led during World War II by a priest and Catholic President Jozef Tiso, who oversees some of the loudest anti-Jewish laws in Europe.
After meeting of the masses and Rome, Francis met with young Slovakia.
He returned to Rome on Wednesday after celebrating his main big mass in Satin near the capital, the annual pilgrimage site was 15 September to glorify the protector of Slovakia, Lady of Sorrows us.