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On 3 June 2018, the fake news web site Your News Wire published an article under the headline Pope Francis Orders White Women to ‘Breed’ with Muslims, which opened as follows: Your News Wire's source for this headline claim was an interview with Pope Francis which had been published by the French-language religious newspaper La Croix (The Cross) over two years earlier, from which Your News Wire quoted only two, out-of-context sentences: That short passage was a ridiculous characterization of what Pope Francis actually said, which was not in any way to state that white women must 'breed' with Muslims. What the pope asserted (in reference to migrants in general, not Muslims specifically) is that European countries need to integrate migrants into their societies rather than ‘ghettoizing’ and isolating them, and that this issue is all the more critical because the native birth rates in those countries has been declining: What Pope Francis expressed in this regard was hardly novel or questionable, as other sources (exemplified by the following 2005 Atlantic article) have been stating similar concerns about the development of growing, marginalized population groups in Europe for many years now:
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