MARSEILLE, Sept 23 — Pope Francis on Friday said European governments have a duty to rescue asylum-seekers who take to sea to escape conflict, warning against a “paralysis of...
MARSEILLE, Sept 23 — Pope Francis on Friday said European governments have a duty to rescue asylum-seekers who take to sea to escape conflict, warning against a “paralysis of fear, on the first day of a visit to the French Mediterranean city of Marseille.
“People who are at risk of drowning when abandoned on the waves must be rescued,” he said at the hilltop Basilica of Notre-Dame de la Garde, overlooking the glistening Mediterranean waters. In unprepared remarks added at the end of his speech the pope thanked NGOs rescuing migrants in danger at sea and condemned efforts to prevent their activity as “gestures of hate”.
But he used the wheelchair again to get around the Basilica of Notre-Dame de la Garde, a symbolic monument overlooking the city, for a prayer service with local clergy, and the car was brought as close as possible for his departure after his remarks on sea rescues.
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