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Pope Leo Urges President Trump To Not Overthrow Venezuela Dictator Nicolas Maduro
The new pope has once again involving himself in U.S. politics.
Pope Leo told a group of reporters on Tuesday that the United States need to handle their conflict with Venezuela in a different manner.
Since being appointed as the Pope, Leo has been very critical of the Trump administration’s foreign and immigration policies.
CNN reported the following details on Pope Leo’s stance on the U.S. tensions with Venezuela:
Pope Leo has said he believes the United States needs to find “another way” in handling the situation in Venezuela, warning against any military incursion and saying it would be better to pursue dialogue or apply economic pressure.
“It seems there is the possibility that there be some activity, even an operation to invade Venezuelan territory,” Leo, who spent several years as a missionary and bishop in Peru, told reporters on board the papal plane returning to Rome from Beirut on Tuesday. “I truly believe that it is better to look for ways of dialogue, maybe pressure, including economic pressure, but looking another way to change, if that is what they want to do in the United States.”
The first American pope’s comments come at a time of heightened tensions between the United States and Venezuela, with Leo saying church leaders in the South American country were looking for “ways to calm the situation.”
He noted that US President Donald Trump and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro had spoken on the phone and that because “the voices that come from the US change, with some frequency sometimes, one needs to see.”
During an in-flight press conference covering a range of topics, Leo also called for Europe and North America to be “a little less fearful” when it comes to immigrants of different faiths. Asked about Catholics who see Islam as a “threat” to Christianity in Europe, Leo said he is aware of people’s fears, but said they are often “generated by people who are against immigration and trying to keep out people who may be from another country, another religion, another race.”
Instead, Leo said his visit to Turkey and Lebanon underlined that “dialogue and friendship between Muslims and Christians is possible” citing Lebanon as a country which teaches friendship between Christians and Muslims. He said the lessons from Lebanon need to be “heard in Europe or North America, that we should perhaps be a little less fearful and look for ways of promoting authentic dialogue and respect.”
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The Guardian reported the on the Pope’s statement he made in November regarding the Trump admin’s immigration polices:
Pope Leo has reiterated his disapproval of Donald Trump’s immigration policies, saying foreigners in the US are being treated in an “extremely disrespectful way”.
Leo, the first US pontiff in the history of the Catholic church, made the remarks in response to questions about a statement adopted last week during a special assembly of US bishops that criticised the Trump administration’s mass deportations and lamented the fear and anxiety caused by immigration raids.
Leo said the statement was “very important” and urged Catholics to take heed.
Pope Leo with white, sitting and looking in the distance
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“I think we have to look for ways of treating people humanely, treating people with the dignity that they have,” he told reporters as he left the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo, a hilltop town south of Rome, on Tuesday.
“If people are in the United States illegally, there are ways to treat that. There are courts; there’s a system of justice.”
Leo acknowledged that “every country has a right to determine who and how and when people enter”.
“But when people are living good lives, and many of them for 10, 15, 20 years, to treat them in a way that is extremely disrespectful, to say the least – and there’s been some violence, unfortunately – I think that the bishops have been very clear in what they said,” he added.
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