Politicians across the globe should pipe down, stop dissing each other and listen for a change, Pope Francis urged Friday as he warned against anti-immigration sentiment sweeping the globe.

“Insulting has become normal,” the pontiff said in an improvised talk to university students in Rome, Reuters reported. “We need to lower the volume a bit and we need to talk less and listen more.”

During his conversation with four students at Roma Tre University, he mostly spoke in general terms, careful not to name drop a particular country or politician. a

“In a society where the standards of politics has fallen so much — I am talking about world society — we lose the sense of building society, of social co-existence, and social co-existence is built on dialogue,” he added.

And he cautioned against anti-immigrant movements that have developed in the U.S. and several European countries.

“Migrations are not a danger. They are a challenge for growth,” he said, adding that immigrants should maintain their traditions while learning new ones.

Immigrants should be considered “first of all as human brothers and sisters,” the pope added.

“They are men and women just like us.”

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