{"id":47705,"date":"2018-11-19T11:38:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T11:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=47705"},"modified":"2018-11-19T11:38:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T11:38:32","slug":"pope-francis-says-world-mustnt-turn-a-blind-eye-to-migrants-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pope-francis-says-world-mustnt-turn-a-blind-eye-to-migrants-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis says world mustn\u2019t turn a blind eye to migrants, the poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis criticised rising wealth inequality and the treatment of migrants on Sunday, saying the world should not ignore those \u201ctossed by the waves of life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInjustice is the perverse root of poverty,\u201d Francis said at a Mass marking the Roman Catholic Church\u2019s annual World Day of the Poor. \u201cThe cry of the poor daily becomes stronger but heard less, drowned out by the din of the rich few, who grow ever fewer and more rich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Francis also reiterated his support for migrants saying that people must pay attention to \u201call those forced to flee their homes and native land for an uncertain future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came as hundreds of migrants from a caravan of Central Americans were stalled at the US-Mexico border after being denied entry to the United States, although Francis made no direct reference to the situation in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>A report this year by Oxfam said 3.7 billion people, or half of the global population, saw no increase in their wealth in 2017, while 82 percent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one percent of the global population.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis criticised rising wealth inequality and the treatment of migrants on Sunday, saying the world should not ignore those \u201ctossed by the waves of life\u201d. \u201cInjustice is the perverse root of poverty,\u201d Francis said at a Mass marking the Roman Catholic Church\u2019s annual World Day of the Poor. \u201cThe cry of the poor daily [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47707,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47705\/revisions\/47707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}