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Miami archbishop says Trump ‘rhetoric’ causing fear in migrant community
- Church in the US
- Jul 13, 2019
Miami’s archbishop reflects on a recent Vatican conference on Internally Displaced Persons (IDP).
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On Lampedusa anniversary, pope prays for suffering migrants
- Vatican
- Jul 8, 2019
On the sixth anniversary of his visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa, Pope Francis celebrated Mass commemorating the trip and praying for all migrants who have either died or been abused along their route.
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Pope’s Lampedusa Mass a test of ability to sell Europe on welcome
- News Analysis
- Jul 8, 2019
To most Americans, the name “Lampedusa” probably doesn’t mean much. Yet for Europeans, and especially Italians, it’s become a shorthand way of referring to the migrant and refugee crisis.
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Church defends captain who defied Italy by bringing migrants to shore
- Church in Europe
- Jul 1, 2019
A migrant vessel defied Italian populist leader and docked in Lampedusa cheered on by Christian priests and prelates.
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Pope to rich: Stop trampling on the poor, including migrants and refugees
- Vatican
- Jul 6, 2018
Pope Francis on Friday celebrated a special Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica to mark the fifth anniversary of his 2013 outing to the island of Lampedusa.
READ MOREMarking the 5th anniversary of a trip that said it all about Pope Francis
- News Analysis
- Jul 5, 2018
Sunday marks the five-year anniversary of Pope Francis’s July 2013 trip to Lampedusa, an island near Sicily that’s a major point of arrival for migrants and refugees trying to reach Europe from Africa and the Middle East.
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