{"id":77875,"date":"2015-10-28T17:01:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T01:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77875"},"modified":"2015-10-28T17:01:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T01:01:04","slug":"daily-mail-the-pope-tells-gypsies-to-stop-fighting-and-swindling-and-make-sure-they-send-their-children-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77875","title":{"rendered":"Daily Mail: The Pope tells gypsies to stop ‘fighting’ and ‘swindling’ and make sure they send their children to school"},"content":{"rendered":"

REPORT<\/a>: The Pope has told gypsies not to \u2018fight\u2019 or \u2018swindle\u2019 and ordered them to always send their children to school.
\nPope Francis told a group of thousands of Roma, Sinti and other travelling people, from all over Europe, to respect the law and avoid bringing shame on their culture through petty crime.
\nAt a gathering in Rome, Francis condemned \u2018centuries\u2019 of discrimination against Europe’s gypsies, he said they must do their part by respecting the law and sending their children to school.
\n\u2018Don\u2019t give the media and the public reason to think badly of you,\u2019 he said.
\nGypsies who professed themselves to be Christians must, \u2018avoid everything that is not worthy of the word: falsehood, fraud, swindles, fighting\u2019, he warned.
\nFrancis said that while the state had to guarantee education, it was \u2018the duty of adults to see to it that children go to school\u2019.
\nItaly is home to Europe\u2019s biggest traveller camp, outside Rome, and the pope has visited several nomadic camps since his appointment in 2013.
\nRoma have been living in Italy for seven centuries. But their poverty and resistance to integration have made them conspicuous. In recent years several camps have been attacked by fire bombs.
\nOn Monday Francis acknowledged that gypsies and travellers had too long suffered from xenophobia and said it was now time to \u2018turn the page\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

REPORT: The Pope has told gypsies not to \u2018fight\u2019 or \u2018swindle\u2019 and ordered them to always send their children to school. Pope Francis told a group of thousands of Roma, Sinti and other travelling people, from all over Europe, to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29621],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gypsies-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t