In an airborne press conference during his return flight from Bahrain, Pope Francis was asked about the wave of protests taking place in Iran. <\/p>\n
He said the fight must continue for women to have equal rights and opportunity universally, and he called female genital mutilation a \u201ccriminal act.\u201d<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS Reflecting on his trip to Bahrain, the Pope said he was struck by the insistent calls for dialogue within Islam by the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, which he said is rooted in a strong sense of one's own identity.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS Pope Francis then turned his attention to the migration crisis in Europe. He urged EU countries to work together to organize the intake of migrants from Africa, and said that Europe has a responsibility to help develop the continent.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS The Pope also addressed the status of handling cases of abuse, saying that the Church's procedures are now \u201cclear,\u201d and that past cases of abuse are being revised if deemed to not have been properly handled. <\/p>\n JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Pope addressed topics from interrreligious dialouge and migration during his airborne press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":43249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0kFF8MRbppw","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/b10confstampagrabseng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/b10confstampagrabsint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Women are a gift. God did not create man and then gave him a dog to play with, no. He made two, equals, man and woman.
\nWomen carry their own; they don't have to become like males. No, they are women; we need them. And a society that erases women from public life is a society that impoverishes itself.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>To enter into interreligious dialogue or ecumenical dialogue, you need your own identity.
\nThis was a journey of encounter.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Every government in the European Union must get on the same page about how many migrants they can receive.
\nEurope must try to make development plans for Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n