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		</div><p>Pope Francis has said that anyone who wants to build a wall along the US-Mexican border is not Christian, when questioned about US presidential candidate Donald Trump&#8217;s views on immigration.</p>
<p>Mr Trump, a leading Republican presidential candidate, has promised to build a wall along the Mexican border from Texas to California and expel 11 million people who are in the country illegally if elected president.</p>
<p>In response, Mr Trump claimed a religious leader questioning a person&#8217;s faith is &#8220;disgraceful&#8221; and the leader of the Roman Catholic Church &#8220;only heard one side of the story&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Pope&#8217;s comments on his way home from Mexico came hours after he prayed at the Mexico-US border for people who died trying to reach the US.</p>
<p> A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian,&#8221; Francis said. &#8220;This is not in the Gospel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Not having heard Mr Trump&#8217;s border plans independently, Francis said he would &#8220;give him the benefit of the doubt.&#8221; But he added: &#8220;I&#8217;d just say that this man is not Christian if he said it this way.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Trump, during a campaign stop in Kiawah Island, South Carolina, responded by saying: &#8220;If and when the Vatican is attacked by Isis, which as everyone knows is Isis&#8217;s ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the Pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president.</p>
<p>&#8220;No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man&#8217;s religion or faith.&#8221;</p>
<p>Texas Senator Ted Cruz, another Republican presidential contender, has also supported building a border wall and joked he will make Mr Trump pay for it.</p>
<p>Mr Trump, a Presbyterian, last week criticised Francis&#8217;s plans to pray at the border.</p>
<p>He said the move was ill-informed and showed Francis to be a political figure being exploited by the Mexican government.<br />
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think he understands the danger of the open border that we have with Mexico,&#8221; Mr Trump said in an interview with Fox News.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think Mexico got him to do it because they want to keep the border just the way it is. They&#8217;re making a fortune and we&#8217;re losing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Asked if he felt he was being used as a pawn of Mexico, Francis said he did not know. &#8220;I leave that judgment to you, the people.&#8221;</p>
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