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Pope Francis has expressed concern about a \u201cvery dangerous\u201d alliance between the U.S. and Russia, saying its leaders are among those that have a \u201cdistorted vision of the world\u201d when it comes to immigration.<\/p>\n
The pope, in an interview with an Italian newspaper on Thursday, lumped the two countries\u2019 relationship in with those of China and North Korea and Russia and Syria as some of the top world leaders met at the G-20 summit in Germany.<\/p>\n
\u201cI worry about very dangerous alliances between powers which have a distorted vision of the world: America and Russia, China and North Korea, (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and (Syria\u2019s Bashar al-) Assad over the war in Syria,\u201d the pope told La Repubblica newspaper.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe danger concerns immigration,\u201d the pope said, according to a translation by AFP. \u201cOur main and unfortunately growing problem in the world today is that of the poor, the weak, the excluded, which includes migrants.\u201d<\/p>\n The warning came one day before President Donald Trumpheld his first face-to-face meeting\u00a0with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Though the meeting was scheduled to last only 30 minutes, it went on for hours with both men singing praises of one another.<\/p>\n The pope has\u00a0previously expressed concerns\u00a0over Russia\u2019s annexation of Ukraine\u2019s Crimea region. He has also criticized Trump over his stance on immigration, at one point saying Trump \u201cis not Christian\u201d because of his determination to build border walls.<\/p>\n In his interview<\/p>\n<\/div>\n , he went on to ask that the leaders of Europe, which he described as the \u201crichest continent in the whole world,\u201d not try to succumb to an illusion that they can seal their borders.<\/p>\n The G-20, a meeting of 19 countries\u2019 leaders plus the European Union, traditionally aims at addressing global financial and economic issues. The countries involved make up nearly two-thirds of the world\u2019s population and three-quarters of global trade. Other issues this year included climate policy and women\u2019s economic empowerment.<\/p>\n Related:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span>\u201cMigrants are our brothers and sisters in search of a better life, far away from poverty, hunger, and war,\u201d the pope\u2019s\u00a0Twitter account tweeted\u00a0on Saturday.<\/p>\n