He met with kings, Catholics and the country's elders, but the official reason for Pope Francis' visit to Belgium was this: to celebrate the 600th anniversary of one of the oldest universities in the world, the University of Louvain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his speech, the Pope thanked the university community for being open-minded and welcoming to refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
POPE FRANCIS In 1968, the university was divided in two due to linguistic differences: the Dutch dialect and the French dialect. The two campuses are about 15 miles apart. The Pope first visited the Dutch-speaking campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the meeting, the Pope greeted a group of refugees one by one and listened to their testimonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n CA The official reason for Pope Francis' visit to Belgium is to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the University of Louvain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":71625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,153],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4EBSBBOM3ug","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bincontrodocentibelgioeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bincontrodocentibelgioint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71628"}],"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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71630,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71628\/revisions\/71630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>While some are calling for the boundaries to be tightened, you, as a university community, have expanded them, thank you. You have opened your arms to welcome these people marked by pain, to help them study and grow. Thank you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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