Pope says young must teach older generations to forgive for future without hate

Record ID: 909419

  • Title: Pope says young must teach older generations to forgive for future without hate
  • Date: 7th September 2017
  • Summary: BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (SEPTEMBER 07, 2017) (REUTERS) GENERAL VIEW OF PLAZA BOLIVAR, MAIN SQUARE WITH CONGREGATION MEMBERS OF CONGREGATION HOLDING COLOMBIAN FLAGS VARIOUS OF POPE FRANCIS SEEN ARRIVING AT BOLIVAR PLAZA ON BOARD POPEMOBILE VARIOUS OF FOLLOWERS WAVING FLAGS GATHERED CONGREGATION VARIOUS OF FRANCIS GREETING CROWDS OF FOLLOWERS FROM POPEMOBILE GENERAL VIEW OF BOLIVAR SQUARE, BOGOTA'S MAIN SQUARE
  • Embargoed: 21st September 2017 19:31
  • Keywords: Pope Francis pope in Colombia Bogota Plaza Bolivar Bogota Cathedral address crowds gathered
  • Location: BOGOTA, COLOMBIA
  • City: BOGOTA, COLOMBIA
  • Country: Colombia
  • Topics: Religion/Belief,Society/Social Issues
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016XLN0P3
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Pope Francis on Thursday (September 7) urged Colombians to learn from youngsters and open their hearts to forgiveness following a bloody 50-year war with guerrillas but challenged the country's leaders to enact just laws to resolve the causes of inequality that lead to violence.
    At the start of his first full day in Colombia, Francis addressed a raucous crowd of young people outside in Plaza Bolivar.
    Colombians are deeply polarized as they prepare to receive 7,000 former fighters of the FARC guerrilla group into society and aim to repair divisions after a war that killed more than 220,000 people and displaced millions over five decades.
    Francis, on his 20th foreign trip and his fifth to his native Latin America, prayed in the colonial Cathedral before a painting of Our Lady of Chiquinquira, the patron saint of overwhelmingly Catholic Colombia.
    At this point in Colombia's history, the young had a duty to teach older generations "to look to the future without the burden of hate and learn to forgive," Francis said.
    After addressing bishops, Francis was due to say a Mass before an expected crowd of more than a million people in Simon Bolivar Park.
    He will visit the cities of Villavicencio, Medellin and Cartagena before leaving for Rome on Sunday night.
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