By RFIPosted 31-03-2019Modified on 31-03-2019 at 19:12

On the second day of his official visit to Morocco, Pope Francis celebrated Sunday, March 31, a giant mass in a sports complex in Rabat, in the presence of the Catholic community of the Kingdom of Morocco, composed of many faithful original Saharan.

The Pope concluded his official visit to Morocco on Sunday with a Mass at the Moulay Abdellah stadium in Rabat, marked by calls for the rights of migrants, religious tolerance and freedom of conscience, with a warning against proselytism. Francis invited the faithful to go beyond the temptations of hatred and division, to " contemplate the Father to rediscover his brothers ".

Jesus invites us to contemplate the heart of the Father. Only from here can we, each day, rediscover our brothers. #VoyageApostolique

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10,000 people and a choir made up of hundreds of faithful to accompany the Our Father enunciated in Spanish by Pope Francis. In the stands of the sports hall of the stadium of Rabat, the room is packed. Flag in hand, Dominique, Catholic native of Morocco, jubilant of this spiritual communion.

" It moves me a lot because, in fact, what we are all looking for is peace, harmony, fraternity. It's an exceptional moment, I think , "she says.

The highlight of Pope Francis' visit was his meeting with the migrant populations of Morocco . For two years, Morocco has become the first country of departure of illegal immigrants to Europe.

" We must get out of the problem of migrants and do as the pope says: to welcome people. If we want a world that is fraternal, we must always leave the most marginalized, the poorest where the insistence of the pope - who is a small son of migrant - who speaks of his flesh and not a problem that we can solve by sitting in an office, "said Father Daniel Nourrissat, priest of Rabat.

For Marie-Louise, from Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, the Church helped her a lot when she arrived in the kingdom.

" You do not feel isolated, you do not feel rejected. Even knowing that we are in a country where there is discrimination, racism, when you get attached to the Church, you feel safe, "she says.

If conversion is still punishable by law for Moroccans, King Mohamed VI has posed as a protector of foreign Christian minorities on his soil.

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