{"id":36643,"date":"2015-06-23T02:20:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T02:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=36643"},"modified":"2015-06-23T12:21:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T12:21:27","slug":"pope-francis-suggests-those-in-weapons-industry-cant-call-themselves-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=36643","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis suggests those in weapons industry can&#8217;t call themselves Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/pope_francis_people.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36644\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/pope_francis_people-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"pope_francis_people\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/pope_francis_people-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/pope_francis_people.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">People who manufacture weapons or invest in weapons industries are hypocrites if they call themselves Christian, <a class=\" u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/pope-francis\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Pope Francis<\/a> said on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Francis issued his toughest condemnation to date of the weapons industry at a rally of thousands of young people at the end of the first day of his trip to the Italian city of Turin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cIf you trust only men you have lost,\u201d he told the young people in a longcommentary about war, trust and politics, after putting aside his prepared address.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cIt makes me think of &#8230; people, managers, businessmen who call themselves Christian and they manufacture weapons. That leads to a bit of distrust, doesn\u2019t it?\u201d he said to applause.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">He also criticised those who invest in weapons industries, saying \u201cduplicity is the currency of today &#8230; they say one thing and do another.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Francis also built on comments he has made in the past about events during the first and second world wars. He spoke of the \u201ctragedy of the Shoah\u201d, using the Hebrew term for the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cThe great powers had the pictures of the railway lines that brought the trains to the concentration camps like Auschwitz to kill Jews, Christians, homosexuals, everybody. Why didn\u2019t they bomb (the railway lines)?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Discussing the first world war, he spoke of \u201cthe great tragedy of Armenia\u201d, but did not use the word \u201cgenocide\u201d. Francis sparked a diplomatic row in April, calling the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians 100 years ago \u201cthe first genocide of the 20th century\u201d, prompting Turkey to recall its ambassador to the Vatican.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jun\/22\/pope-francis-says-those-in-weapons-industry-cant-call-themselves-christian\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who manufacture weapons or invest in weapons industries are hypocrites if they call themselves Christian, Pope Francis said on Sunday. Francis issued his toughest condemnation to date of the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catholic-church","category-pope-francis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36646,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36643\/revisions\/36646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}