A32News - Supreme Leader of the World Catholic Church, Pope Francis, Saturday (19/11/2016), warned about the spread of "epidemic hostility".
According to the Pope, hostility towards fellow human beings has spread and attack people of other races or religions, hurting the weakest groups in society.
The Pope seemed to want to give warnings carefully about the rise of populist nationalism or populist nationalism, as reported by Reuters.
A week after Donald Trump, anti-immigrant leader, was elected President of the United States, Pope Francis said, "how quickly those among us with the status of foreigners, immigrants or refugees have become a threat, labeled enemy status".
Labelled "an enemy because they come from a distant land or have different habits, because of the color of their skin, their language or their social class," he said.
"An enemy because they think differently or even have a different faith," he said while inaugurating 17 new cardinals, hoping to avoid hostility.
Pope voiced concern over the hostilities, which seemed to rise to do the majority towards the minority or the weakest groups in society.
Although it did not name any country, Francis deliver it among others by referring to anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim campaign and since the US election.
The US Justice Department on Friday (18/11/2016), said it was investigating reports of intimidation and harassment in schools, churches and other places since the US election.
One of the new cardinals, Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago, said the pope was "very aware of the fact that if (hostility) not prevented, would be very contagious and can spread quickly, can be like a wild fire".
In the ceremony of "consistory" in St. Peter's Basilica on Saturday, Pope Francis appointed 17 new cardinals, 13 of them under the age of 80 years, to be a "prince of the Church" for 1.2 billion people.
