{"id":8009,"date":"2016-03-02T22:47:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T22:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=8009"},"modified":"2016-03-02T22:47:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T22:47:09","slug":"pope-wants-the-church-to-reject-dirty-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=8009","title":{"rendered":"Pope wants the Church to reject &#8216;dirty money&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><!-- BEGIN JUMIA --><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pope-frances.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6227\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6227\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pope-frances.jpg\" alt=\"pope frances\" width=\"277\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/marketing.net.jumia.com.ng\/ts\/i3556158\/tsc?amc=aff.jumia.44339.52450.23046&amp;tst=!!TIMESTAMP!!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marketing.net.jumia.com.ng\/ts\/i3556158\/tsv?amc=aff.jumia.44339.52450.23046&amp;tst=!!TIMESTAMP!!\" alt=\"NG-[C:G.Prom,B:Allbrand,Wk:0916,Dim:300X250]:Home_Page\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/code><\/p>\n<p><!-- END JUMIA --><\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Church does not want people to donate &#8220;dirty money&#8221; earned by abusing low-paid workers, Pope Francis said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some donors come to the Church offering profits from the blood of people who have been exploited, mistreated, enslaved with badly paid work,&#8221; Francis said during his regular weekly audience with pilgrims at the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.konga.com\/cooking-baking-ingredients?utm_source=affiliates&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_term=cooking-baking-ingredients&amp;utm_content=17_11_2015&amp;utm_campaign=cooking-baking-ingredients&amp;k_id=Omafume&amp;k_bid=fd480db9\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"\/\/konga.postaffiliatepro.com\/accounts\/default1\/bo3dhla\/fd480db9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/konga.postaffiliatepro.com\/scripts\/io3dhla?k_id=Omafume&amp;k_bid=fd480db9\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will say to them: &#8216;Please take your money away, burn it&#8217;,&#8221; said Francis, who has made safeguarding the poor and cleaning up Vatican finances central tenets of his papacy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people of God&#8230; do not need dirty money, they need hearts that are open to God&#8217;s mercy,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The pope has branded money &#8220;the dung of the devil&#8221; and condemned the evils of unbridled capitalism, prompting criticism from some U.S. business leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Francis has increased the power of the Vatican&#8217;s financial intelligence authority (AIF) but the European finance watchdog Moneyval said last year the Holy See still needed to be much more aggressive in prosecuting financial crimes.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/<\/p>\n<p><code><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaymu.com.ng\/computers\/?utm_source=pap&amp;utm_medium=aff&amp;utm_campaign=aa6c5676&amp;a_aid=Omafume&amp;a_bid=aa6c5676\" target=\"_top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"\/\/kaymu.postaffiliatepro.com\/accounts\/default1\/a72f75b38\/aa6c5676.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/kaymu.postaffiliatepro.com\/scripts\/a72f75i38?a_aid=Omafume&amp;a_bid=aa6c5676\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church does not want people to donate &#8220;dirty money&#8221; 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