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Pope visit an indicator of introduction for Slovakia

KOSICE, Slovakia -- Pope Francis traveled to china and taiwan of Slovakia on Tuesday newsone to generally meet with the country's Roma in a motion of introduction for the most socially excluded community party in Slovakia, who have long suffered discrimination, marginalization and poverty.

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Pope visit an indicator of introduction for Slovakia

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  1. Pope visit an indicator of introduction for Slovakia's excluded Roma KOSICE, Slovakia -- Pope Francis traveled to china and taiwan of Slovakia on Tuesday newsone to generally meet with the country's Roma in a motion of introduction for the most socially excluded community party in Slovakia, who have long suffered discrimination, marginalization and poverty. Francis'stop by at the Lunik IX settlement in Kosice is one of the highlights of his four-day pilgrimage to Hungary and Slovakia. It's his first journey because undergoing intestinal surgery in September and marks the system of his globetrotting papacy after a very nearly two-year coronavirus hiatus. Lunik IX is the biggest of about 600 cheap, segregated settlements where in actuality the poorest 20% of Slovakia's 400,000 Roma live. Many absence principles such as operating water or sewage programs, gas or electricity. The “pope of the peripheries” has long wanted to generally meet with society's many little during his

  2. international trips, making sure to generally include trips to slums, ghettos or prisons wherever he could offer words of encouragement, solidarity and welcome. Francis was starting the day by celebrating a Byzantine rite Bulk in Presov, near Kosice, in acceptance of the country's Greek-Catholic believers. Throughout the chant-filled, open-air Bulk, Francis recalled the persecution sustained by all Christians during communist rule. “Here I think of the martyrs who in this nation bore experience to the enjoy of Christ in bothered instances, when every thing counselled stop, getting protect, maybe not professing the trust," he said. “Exactly how many nice people suffered and died within Slovakia for the name of Christ!" Planners estimated some 40,000 people, and ahead of when Francis' birth they had stuffed the outdoor activities world as a choir sang hymns. They cheered and very waved the yellow and bright banners of the Holy See as Francis looped through the website in his popemobile ahead of the service.

  3. “We got at 3 a.m. to obtain the best spot," said Slavka Marcinakova, an area resident from Presov. “Pope visiting Slovakia — you have the opportunity like this only one time in an eternity, we're so pleased for that.” Among those readily available for the Bulk was Gloss Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the longtime benefit to St. Steve Henry II, the Gloss pope who produced three trips to Slovakia during his quarter-century papacy. The Rev. Michal Ospodar, a Greek-Catholic priest from Kosice, said Francis' visit could inspire the neighborhood faithful. “Our church suffered a great deal before because we were devoted to the pope," he said. “Due to that we experience grateful that the pope got to the area and that we may meet him in person.”

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