Pope Francis will today perform the traditional Holy Thursday
foot-washing ceremony at a refugee shelter in Castelnuovo di Porto,
outside Rome, inaugurating the most solemn period of the Catholic
Church's Easter season. This ceremony will see the Pope heading to the
refugee center to wash and kiss the feet of Muslim, Orthodox, Hindu and
Catholic migrants in a gesture of welcome at a time anti-Muslim and
anti-immigrant sentiment is heating up following the Brussels and Paris
attacks. The Vatican announced that the 12 people selected for the
ritual include 11 migrants and an Italian who works at the center: The
11 include four Catholic men from Nigeria, three Muslim men from Mali,
Syria and Pakistan; three Eritrean Coptic Christian women and a Hindu
Indian man.
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