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Pope to Iraq's Christians: You are like Jesus night gala Birth
Twilight News / request of Pope Francesco Catholics face the situation "very hard" to "love and moderation" in his homily during the Christmas mass in the Vatican, inviting them for the use of God in their lives to help them in the fight against the darkness and corruption.
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Pope was the head of the Argentine (78 years) Requiem for a holiday Christmas night in the presence of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square, where he gave a speech "during Midnight Mass" celebratory anniversary of the birth of Christ in Bethlehem Bmgarh.
This is the second Mass for the Feast of Christmas, headed by the Pope, who was elected last year as the first non-European head of the Catholic Church in 1,300 years.
And in front of about five thousand people gathered in St. Peter's Basilica, Francesco believers in the whole world to pray even under difficulties, conflict and wars called, saying, "O Lord, give me grace and love in the living conditions are very difficult, give me the grace to cope with everything I needed and moderation in any conflict." .
He said the Pope, who is the spiritual father of nearly 1.2 billion Catholics in the world, "how much the world needs to tenderness today .. He needs to dream of the Lord and the Lord and tenderness near the Lord." He stressed that "life must be joined with ointment heart and gentleness."
Communication and console
A few hours before his presidency of the Mass, the Pope made a telephone call to console a surprise to Christians in the refugee camp in Iraq while they were about to celebrate Bakdashm for Christmas holiday.
The Pope said, the dial which rank Sat Catholic television station in 2000 Italian "You are like Jesus Night Gala Christmas. There is also no place for him and he was forced to flee to Egypt later to escape himself."
Addressing Francesco Ankawa refugee center near Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, where resorted to thousands of Iraqis who have fled the progress the organization of the Islamic state this year, saying: "Dear brothers, I am very very close to you with all my heart. To keep you Lord have mercy."
It seems especially difficult Christmas holiday to 150 thousand Christians displaced in Iraq "who they do not display any quick fix," says Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako told AFP in Baghdad.
It is expected to draw the pope Thursday morning in his Christmas Day feast of the main balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square in front of tens of thousands of people.
Traditionally heading "Pontiff" who heads the Catholic Church on this occasion to "the city and the world" and called the settlement calls for the situation of war and injustice.
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