The head of the Catholic Church, traveling to Malta, denounces the “Sordides” agreements passed by the European Union with Libya to form the coastal guards that intercept migrants.
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Despite the stupor before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, images of destruction and refugee waves absorbed by Poland and other border countries, Pope Francis did not forget them. Sunday, April 3, on the second day of his visit to Malta, the head of the Catholic Church stepped up, once again, with refugees from the Mediterranean, those who, from his southern and oriental confines, attempt to costs to push the door of the European Union. “Since I went [on the Italian Island of] Lampedusa [in July 2013, for his first trip after his election], I have never forgotten you,” he said. His tireless advocacy for a welcome worthy of migrants in Europe has materialized, over the years, by two visits to Camps on the Greek Island of Lesbos, as well as many meetings, almost to each of his Travel.
The step slowed down and strongly clauding, very obviously suffering from acute knee pain and a throbbing hip that forbid it the stairs and force it to sit in his Papamobile, François went to the laboratory From Peace John XXIII, a center located in Hal Far, on the south shore of the island of Malta. The migrants who are welcomed and accompanied are most of Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan. Their route has most often crossed Libya. “Nobody would like to leave his history and loved ones behind, said by welcoming him the Franciscan Dionisio Mintoff, founder of the place in the 1970s, but the war, hunger and the impossibility of building their future and that of their children pushes many men and women to flee their country and look for a safe place. “
Outside the peace laboratory, a fifty of Ukrainians were waiting for the pontiff in awareness: “Close the Ukrainian sky”, “Protect our children”. Inside, some two hundred people, who came for the most part of Africa, wisely sitting under a pure sky, welcomed it and some were able to testify to their career. “Your stories,” said Francis, “recall those who, in recent days, have been forced to flee Ukraine because of an unjust and wild war. But also that of many other men and women who have been Forced to leave their home and land, Asia, Africa and America, looking for a safe place. I think of Rohingya. My thoughts and prayers go to them all right now. “
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