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Vatican City, Sep 11, 2017 \/ 04:07 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- On his return flight from Colombia, Pope Francis said that seeing parents\u2019 devotion for their children gives him hope for the country\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

Concluding his press conference aboard the papal flight back to Rome, Pope Francis said, \u201cI would like to conclude with an image. What most struck me about the Colombians in the four cities were the people in the streets, greeting me. What most struck me is that the father, mother, raised up their children to help them see the Pope and so the Pope could bless them, as if saying, \u2018This is my treasure, this is my hope. This is my future\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis struck me,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe tenderness. The eyes of those fathers, of those mothers. Precious, precious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seeing this devotion of parents for the children, he said, is \u201ca symbol of hope, of future.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA people that is capable of having children and then showing them to you, helping them see as well, as if saying, \u2018This is my treasure,\u2019 is a people that has hope and future.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pope spoke aboard the papal plane Sunday evening on the return flight from Colombia. He visited the country Sept. 6-11 to promote peace and reconciliation in the country, which has suffered from the violence of a decades-long civil war.<\/p>\n

During his trip, Pope Francis met with religious and civil leaders, visited a children\u2019s home and a homeless shelter, and spoke at a prayer gathering for national reconciliation. He visited the Colombian cities of Bogota, Villavicencio, Medell\u00edn and Cartagena.<\/p>\n

In the 40-minute long press conference aboard the papal flight, the Pope also spoke about the phasing out of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), corruption, climate change, and whether Colombia could provide a model of the peace process for other countries.<\/p>\n

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