The pontiff received a rapturous welcome in Nairobi’s impoverished Kangemi slum as he continues his first Africa visitPope Francis has launched a blistering criticism of “new forms of colonialism” that exacerbate the “dreadful injustice of urban exclusion” while speaking to thousands of people in one of Nairobi’s most impoverished slums.
On his final day in Kenya before travelling to Uganda later on Friday,the pontiff lashed out at wealthy minorities who hoard resources at the expense of the destitute and praised the values of solidarity and mutual support in deprived neighbourhoods. Such values, he said, or had been forgotten by “an opulent society,anaesthetised by unbridled consumption” and were “not quoted in the stock exchange, are not subject to speculation, or have no market price”.
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Source: theguardian.com