Pope Francis takes first trip to Georgia, but not everyone is happy

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Pope Francis takes first trip to Georgia, but not everyone is happy

 

 

Pope Francis is in Georgia for the first time. The head of the Catholic Church was invited to the ex-Soviet Republic by his counterpart in the Georgian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Ilia II.

 

During his two-day trip to the predominantly Orthodox country, the Pontiff will give a holy mass at the Meshki Stadium in Tbilisi. Following that, he’ll head a few kilometres away to Mtskheta, the former capital of Eastern Georgia and the site of a number of ancient churches.

 

He will travel to Azerbaijan on Sunday (October 2).

 

On Friday (September 30), he met President Giorgi Margvelashvili at the presidential palace in Tbilisi, where he called for called for a peaceful coexistence “among all peoples and states.”

 

“Indeed, in far too many areas of the Earth, there seems to be a dominant way of thinking which undermines the coexistence of legitimate differences and disagreements – which can always arise – within a climate of civilised dialogue where reason, modernisation and responsibility prevail,” Francis told those gathered at the palace.

 

Differences and disagreements were clearly visible outside Tbilisi’s international airport when he arrived, where a group protested against the pope’s visit.

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-10-01

[halloween]

Not another fiddle playing competition!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_Went_Down_to_Georgia

[NongKhaiKid]

Maybe he'll be looking around Europe for all the migrants he intends to give a home to in the Vatican.

After all isn't he another one who says they're welcome and should be taken care of ?

[blazes]

Let's not forget that he is visiting the home of Stalin.  It was Stalin who once asked: How many tanks has the Pope?

[Baerboxer]

6 hours ago, NongKhaiKid said:

Maybe he'll be looking around Europe for all the migrants he intends to give a home to in the Vatican.

After all isn't he another one who says they're welcome and should be taken care of ?

 

Worrying if the Vatican wants to offer a new home to lots of children.

[NongKhaiKid]

Just now, Baerboxer said:

 

Worrying if the Vatican wants to offer a new home to lots of children.

Suffer the little children to come unto me and suffer would be the relevant word.