{"id":224549,"date":"2023-11-25T03:52:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/?p=224549"},"modified":"2023-11-25T03:52:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T03:52:10","slug":"vatican-denies-pope-francis-used-the-word-genocide-to-describe-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/world-news\/vatican-denies-pope-francis-used-the-word-genocide-to-describe-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican denies Pope Francis used the word &apos;genocide&apos; to describe Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Vatican denies Pope Francis used the word &#8216;genocide&#8217; to describe events in Gaza after meeting with Palestinians at his residence<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Palestinians who met with the Pope insisted that he used the word &#8216;genocide&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Vatican has denied that the Pope used the word after the meeting\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A messy dispute has broken out over whether Pope Francis used the word &#8216;genocide&#8217; to describe events in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinians who met with him insisted that he used the word, something the Vatican denied.<\/p>\n<p>The opposing versions emerged at an afternoon press conference with 10 Palestinians who met the Pope on Wednesday morning at his Vatican residence.<\/p>\n<p>That meeting followed a separate one with Israeli relatives of hostages in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When we shared the stories of the families that have been killed (in Gaza) he mentioned &#8220;I see the genocide&#8221;,&#8217; said Shireen Awwad Hilal, who teaches at the Bethlehem Bible College.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was very clear, the word genocide did not come from us. It came from His Holiness, Pope Francis,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/22\/22\/78130993-0-image-a-1_1700690516009.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Palestinians who met with him insisted that he used the word, something the Vatican denied<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/22\/22\/78131041-0-image-a-2_1700690528605.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The opposing versions emerged at an afternoon press conference with 10 Palestinians who met the Pope on Wednesday morning at his Vatican residence<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/22\/22\/78131003-0-image-a-3_1700690542505.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis meets with Palestinians whose relatives are stranded in Gaza<\/p>\n<p>But a statement sent by Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni, in response to question texted by a reporter, said the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I am not aware that he (the pope) used such a word. He used terms that he expressed during the general audience and words that in any case represent the terrible situation that is being lived out in Gaza,&#8217; Bruni&#8217;s statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Other participants at the Palestinian news conference concurred that they had heard the pope use the word genocide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We were all there. We heard it and no one has a hearing problem,&#8217; Hilal said when pressed by reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The participants said the pope was very informed about the situation in Gaza and the lack of water, medicine and basic necessities.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinians at their news conference said the pope condemned Hamas&#8217; action as terror, with more than one quoting the pope during the meeting as saying &#8216;terror should not justify terror&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday, the Pope said the conflict had gone beyond war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This is what wars do. But here we have gone beyond wars. This is not war. This is terrorism,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He asked for prayers so that both sides would &#8216;not go ahead with passions, which, in the end, kill everyone&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s Ambassador to the Vatican Raphael Schutz said he did not want to refer directly to what the pope had said but added: &#8216;There is a simple distinction, one side is murdering, raping, and does not care about those on their own side. The other side is engaged in a war of self-defence.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12781739\/Vatican-denies-Pope-Francis-genocide-Gaza-Palestinians.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vatican denies Pope Francis used the word &#8216;genocide&#8217; to describe events in Gaza after meeting with Palestinians&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vatican denies Pope Francis used the word &amp;apos;genocide&amp;apos; to describe Gaza - All World Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/world-news\/vatican-denies-pope-francis-used-the-word-genocide-to-describe-gaza\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vatican denies Pope Francis used the word &amp;apos;genocide&amp;apos; 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