TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WARNED: Pope Leo Calls for Religious Access for Detained Immigrants

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00:00The spiritual rights of people who have been detained should also be considered and I would

00:20certainly invite the authorities to allow pastoral workers to attend to the needs of

00:29those people. Many times they've been separated from their families for a good amount of time,

00:35no one knows what's happening, but their own spiritual needs should be attended to.

00:44Let me say that I think in the first place the role of the church is to preach the gospel

00:48and just a couple days ago we heard Matthew's gospel chapter 25 which says, Jesus says very

00:55clearly at the end of the world we're going to be asked, you know, how did you receive

01:01the foreigner? Did you receive him and welcome him or not? And I think that there's a deep

01:07reflection that needs to be made in terms of what's happening. Many people who've lived

01:12for years and years and years never causing problems have been deeply affected by what's

01:17going on right now.

01:24A country has the right to have, let's say, the military to defend peace, to build peace.

01:33In this case it seems a bit different, increasing the tension. Five minutes ago I read a new news

01:45news that they are saying that every time they are closer to the coast of Venezuela I think

01:51that with violence we won't win. The thing is to look at the dialogue, to look at a

02:01right way to find solutions to the problems that can exist in this country.

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