Pope Francis on Sunday spoke out against governments that build walls to keep out migrants, reiterating his calls for a compassionate approach to migration.
"Those who build walls will become prisoners of the walls they put up," the Pope said."This is history."Francis made his comments to reporters while flying to Rome after a visit to Morocco, and when asked about the efforts of several nations, including the US and Spain, to build walls and fences to keep out migrants, Francis made his remark.
Speaking in Panama earlier this year, Francis said,"Builders of walls sow fear."Francis likewise said during Trump's presidential campaign that his call for a border wall made him"not Christian.""A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian," Francis said in 2016."This is not the gospel.
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