adminMORELIA (Mexico) — Pope Francis has questioned leading US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s Christianity over his call to build a border wall with Mexico in order to prevent undocumented immigrants entering the United States.
Pope Francis on Thursday said “a person who thinks only about building walls… and not of building bridges, is not Christian.”
In response, Trump slammed Francis and said the Christian leader has been duped by the Mexican government.
Trump also condemned Francis for publicly questioning his faith after the pope issued a statement in which he said building walls “is not Christian.”
“For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful. I’m proud to be a Christian and as president — I will not allow Christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened, unlike what is happening now with our current president,” he said.
“No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man’s religion and faith,” he added.
Meanwhile, Pope Francis, who is usually calm and accommodating with his admirers, clearly lost his temper with a person who pulled on him so hard that he fell onto a child on a wheel chair.
Video footage showed that while the pope was walking at the edge of a crowd in an stadium, he stopped to greet children who were sitting.
Two arms reached out to grab him and the person would not let go, even after the pope lost his balance and his chest was pressing on the child’s head.
Aides and security men stopped the pope from falling to the ground. After he returned to an upright position, his face turned angry.
He looked at the person, raised his voice and said twice in Spanish: “Don’t be selfish!”. — Reuters.
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