It was at Lampedusa, Italian confetti of 20 square kilometers in the Mediterranean Sea, that Pope Francis, died Monday April 21 at the age of 88, had made, on July 8, 2013, the first trip of his pontificate. And it was from this island close to the Tunisian coast, assimilated to a door of Europe, that he had castigated “Indifference” people to the fate of migrants during a mass followed by more than 10,000 people in the small stadium on the island.
“In this world of globalization, we fell into the globalization of indifference”had he launched, evoking “Immigrants who died at sea, on these boats which, instead of being a path of hope, were a road to death”. “Let us not allow the” pond nostrum “to be transformed into a delend” pond mortum “”had yet declared François. Since 2014, nearly 32,000 people have disappeared by trying to join the European continent by sea.
“Together, as a single human family, we are all migrants”considered this son and grandson of migrants who arrived from Piedmont in Argentina in 1929. “Over the years, he has constantly pleaded for a worthy and human reception of migrants, firmly condemning rejection policies and even calling” serious sin “the systematic attempts to repel migrants”recalled Marcela Villalobos Cid, pastoral coordinator of networks within the Conference of Bishops of France, in a text published in February.
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Source: Lemonde