Pope Francis not Happy with some leaders of the new forms of populism.

Pope Francis said today he is afraid when he hears the speech of some leaders who represent the new forms of populism, because they remind him of the hate messages of the 1930s.

Francisco traveled today to Bari, in the Italian region of Apulia, to participate in the meeting, “The Mediterranean, frontier of peace”, in which 58 bishops from the various countries of the region participated.

“I am afraid when I listen to the speeches of some leaders of the new forms of populism. It seems to me to hear the speeches that sow fear and hatred in the decade of the 30s of the last century “, said Francisco in his allocation in the basilica of Saint Nicolas before the bishops and patriarchs who participated in this journey.

Regarding the meeting, the Argentine Pope recalled that “the Mediterranean area is threatened by many outbreaks of instability and war, both in the Middle East and in several states in North Africa and also between different ethnic groups or religious and denominational groups. “.

“Nor can we forget the conflict, still unsolved, between Israelis and Palestinians, with the danger of unfair solutions, but mitigating new crises,” he added.

Pope Francis again denounced that the war “allocates resources to the purchase of weapons and military force, diverting them from the vital functions of a society, such as support for families, health and education”.

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“In other words, it is truly crazy, because it is irrational to destroy houses, bridges, factories, hospitals, kill people and wipe out resources instead of building human and economic relationships,” he stressed.

He also mentioned that those who “suffer the most” in the Mediterranean area are those who “flee the war or leave their land in search of a dignified human life”, and predicted that the phenomenon “with its historical dynamics, will deeply mark the region , so states and religious communities cannot be unprepared “.

In this way, the pope urged that it should never be accepted that “whoever seeks hope across the sea dies without receiving help, whoever comes to be the victim of sexual exploitation, or who is exploited or recruited by mafias”.

“Hospitality and dignified integration are stages of a difficult process, it is unthinkable to be able to face it by building walls,” he said.

During his visit to Bari, Pope Francis will celebrate a mass before about 50,000 people on Avenida Vittorio Emanuele.