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Pope Francis washes the feet of Muslim migrants, says we are ‘children of the same God’ (washingtonpost.com)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 3/28/1612:07 PM

They came from Mali, Eritrea, Syria and Pakistan. They were Muslim, Hindu, Catholic and Coptic Christians. And one by one, Pope Francis knelt down before these migrants on Holy Thursday and washed their feet. The ritual, performed in a center for asylum seekers outside of Rome, comes amid anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and in the wake of a terrorist attack in Brussels, for which the Islamic State has claimed responsibility. A number of the migrants whose feet were washed by the pope had...

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