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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 14-09-18
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[01] Pope Francis'meeting with SYRIZA leader Tsipras concluded
[01] Pope Francis'meeting with SYRIZA leader Tsipras concluded
ROME (ANA-MPA/Th. Andreadis-Syggelakis) - Main opposition SYRIZA leader
Alexis Tsipras on Thursday met with Pope Francis in the Vatican and
discussed the economic crisis, the migration issue and the need for
politics to re-inspire people as well as the need for world peace.
"The Left and the Christian Church have different starting points but
meet at the same core values: solidarity, love for the fellow-men, social
justice and our wish for world peace," Tsipras said after the meeting.
SYRIZA leader also described Greece's current situation to the Pope and
spoke of a country that keeps sinking deeper in the crisis, which has
now become a humanitarian one and pointed out that "we need the support
of wider forces across Europe" to terminate this policy.
"Today I had the opportunity to discuss the economic crisis with Pope
Francis…To discuss the need for politics to re-inspire people to
collective values that are universal and effective against today's
dominant material values of profit and consumption," he said.
"We discussed the need for peace to return to the world, to terminate war
interventions, the need to restore the value of solidarity, to talk on
the need for people to be above profits. We asked him to continue fighting
against poverty, talking about people's dignity and the structural cause
of poverty," he added.
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