Pope Francis washes, kisses feet of refugees at Holy Thursday rite

Pope Francis on Thursday done and kissed the anxiety of refugees, including three Muslim men, and accursed accoutrements makers as partly amenable for active attacks that dead at atomic 31 humans in Brussels.


He fabricated his comments at a acceptable pre-Easter ritual. This year 11 of the 12 humans whose anxiety he done and kissed were refugees. The commemoration commemorates Jesus' action of abasement appear his apostles on the night afore he died.

"All of us together, Muslims, Hindus, Catholics, Copts, Evangelicals, but brothers, accouchement of the aforementioned God, who wish to reside in peace, integrated," he said in ad-lib comments at a apartment arctic of Rome that houses refugees gluttonous political asylum.

"Three canicule ago, there was a action of war, of destruction, in a city-limits of Europe by humans who don't wish to reside in peace," he said.

"Behind that action there were accoutrements manufacturers, accoutrements traffickers, who wish blood, not peace, who wish war, not brotherhood," he said.

In a advertence to the Brussels attackers, Francis accursed "those poor creatures who buy weapons in adjustment to abort brotherhood," comparing them to Judas Iscariot, the advocate who the Bible says betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.

Before Francis became pope, the commemoration was captivated in St. Peter's or addition Rome basilica and alone included Catholic men, usually priests.

But afterwards his acclamation in 2013, he connected the attitude he started as abbey of Buenos Aires, enabling women and non-Catholics to participate. Catholic conservatives accept criticised him for breaking with tradition.

The refugees came from Mali, Nigeria, Eritrea, India, Syria and Pakistan. The four women in the accumulation were three Coptic Christians from Eritrea and an Italian Catholic who works at the shelter, which is home to about 900 cover seekers.

"Each one of you, anniversary in your religious language, let's adjure to the Lord so that this alliance is catching in the world," he said.

He brought amber Easter eggs, soccer balls, and donations for the centre.

The pope presides at two casework on Good Friday, including a candlelight Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) advance about Rome's Colosseum.

He leads an Easter acuity account on Saturday and on Easter Sunday he delivers his twice-yearly "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city-limits and the world) absolution and bulletin from the axial balustrade of St. Peter's Basilica.