{"id":86377,"date":"2017-01-23T01:03:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T06:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=86377"},"modified":"2017-01-23T01:03:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T06:03:34","slug":"pope-francis-calls-on-european-states-to-assimilate-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/23\/pope-francis-calls-on-european-states-to-assimilate-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis calls on European states to assimilate migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_86379\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86379\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pope-francis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86379\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pope-francis.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Francis calls on European states to assimilate migrants (Photo by Presidencia de la Rep\u00fablica Mexicana [CC BY 2.00\" width=\"800\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pope-francis.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pope-francis-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pope-francis-768x372.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis calls on European states to assimilate migrants (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ADespedida_a_S.S._Papa_Francisco_-_24984760702.jpg\">Presidencia de la Rep\u00fablica Mexicana [CC BY 2.00<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>MADRID\u2014The European countries should accept and assimilate migrants instead of creating ghettos, Pope Francis said in an interview with El Pais newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The supreme pontiff said that Europeans&#8217; negligence has led to emergence of ghettos all around the EU.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The process of integration should be started \u2026 when the integration does not happen, ghettos arise. That is nobody\u2019s fault, but practically it exists. The people, who caused the catastrophe in Zaventem [airport] were born in Belgium. But they lived in an reclusive district of migrants,&#8221; Pope Francis said.<\/p>\n<p>Italy and Greece are the outstanding examples of accepting migrants even during the difficulties inside the countries, Pope Francis added.<\/p>\n<p>Europe has been beset by a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants fleeing crisis-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa to escape violence and poverty. The majority of these cross the Mediterranean Sea and arrive in the European Union using southern EU nations to transit to wealthier north European countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID\u2014The European countries should accept and assimilate migrants instead of creating ghettos, Pope Francis said in an interview with El &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":86379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[14134,2300],"class_list":["post-86377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-assimilate-migrants","tag-pope-francis","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}