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Vatican Decries Fence Planned for U.S. Border

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“In a speech discussing immigrants and refugees, a top Vatican official on Tuesday took aim at Washington’s plan to build a fence along the Mexican border, saying it was inhumane.

“Speaking of borders, I must unfortunately say that in a world that greeted the fall of the Berlin Wall with joy, new walls are being built between neighborhood and neighborhood, city and city, nation and nation,” said Cardinal Renato Martino, in presenting Pope Benedict XVI’s message for the Roman Catholic Church’s World Day of Migrants and Refugees.”

Posted on: November 15th, 2006
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Filed Under: 1. Hispanic News, Immigration, Politics, Religion
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