By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

As was expected, the 4-day visit to Manama of the Leader of the Catholic sect of Christianity did not bring any relief to the unending plight of the long oppressed majority of Bahrain.
It was nothing more than a publicity stunt by the repressive Aal-e Khalifa minority regime to whitewash its image, and Pope Francis heartily obliged because his sole objective in such visits to Muslim lands is to seek sheep for his dwindling flock.
We have yet no information if any of the so-called Muslims connected to the oppressive regime and slavishly serving Zionist interests, feeling any attraction towards Catholicism – at least politically – in order to cover up their human rights violations.
The papal visit, however, has won admiration for the Aal-e Khalifas, especially from Israel where old friend Benjamin Netanyahu is back in power, and the child-killer is known to prefer a docile Vatican which is indifferent to not just the plight of the Christians of Palestine but also towards the slandering by the Zionists of the fundamentals of the Church – Prophet Jesus and the Virgin Mary (peace upon them).
Moreover, Pope Francis (real name Jorge Mario Bergoglio) is like the IAEA Chief, Rafael Mariano Grossi, an Argentinian citizen of Italian origin, having a soft corner for Israel and its unbridled crimes against humanity.
This was the reason the visitor from Vatican turned a blind eye to a group of Bahraini women and children who lined the streets with placards calling for the release of their fathers, sons, and husbands (and even daughters) languishing in the dungeons of Bahrain – most of them for the past 11 years since the bloody crackdown on the peaceful mass protests that were ignored by the US and the self-styled advocates of democracy.
To add insult to injury, Pope Francis, who has maintained a ‘prison ministry’ to stay in touch with Argentine inmates he got to know while archbishop of Buenos Aires and celebrates ‘Holy Thursday’ liturgies with the inmates in Italian prisons, had no such meetings with the prisoners of conscience in Bahraini jails, such as prominent human rights activists and religious scholars, including Sheikh Ali Salman the Head of the now banned al-Wefaq party, who used to be the elected opposition leader of the dissolved parliament.
Now the Aal-e Khalifa tyrants of pirate origin who survive under protection of the US 5th fleet stationed in Manama, have a free hand in assembling a so-called parliament under guise of spurious elections which are being boycotted by the majority of the long oppressed people of Bahrain, whose legitimate leader, Grand Ayatollah Isa Qassim, has been forced into exile and deprived of citizenship of the ancestral land where his forefathers have lived for centuries.