The pontiff’s 35-minute speech today drew a standing ovation from his audience.
MARSEILLE: Pope Francis today urged European governments to welcome migrants instead of viewing them as invaders, striding into in a hugely sensitive political debate again inflamed by mass arrivals.
Francis’ 35-minute speech drew a standing ovation from his audience, but his position on migration was unlikely to please French president Emmanuel Macron and interior minister Gerald Darmanin, who were both present and plan tougher measures to control arrivals. He thanked aid groups rescuing migrants in danger at sea, condemning efforts to prevent their work as “gestures of hate”.Tens of thousands of people are expected to watch Francis as he travels through the streets of Marseille later today before celebrating mass for almost 60,000 people in the city’s famed Velodrome stadium.
The Mediterranean port is a “cosmopolitan, multicultural, multireligious” hub but “faces huge difficulties, drug trafficking that costs human lives every day the problem of housing”, Domingo added. He also spoke of “unborn children, rejected in the name of a false right to progress, which is instead a retreat into the selfish needs of the individual”.Francis’ messages may have less resonance given Catholicism’s long decline in France.
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