‘All of Us Are Migrants’, Says Pope on Final Day of Spain Visit
ACCEM says the center offers shelter, medical screening and legal help, while most residents are adult men from African countries.
- On Friday, Pope Leo XIV visited the Las Raices reception center in Tenerife, telling migrants "all of us are migrants" on the final day of his weeklong Apostolic Journey to Spain.
- Run by the Spanish non-profit ACCEM, the Las Raices facility provides emergency shelter for male adults arriving by sea, following the Pope's earlier stops in Madrid, Barcelona, and Gran Canaria.
- Condemning "indifference" toward migrant deaths, the Pope urged newcomers to engage in a "reciprocal journey" and denounced those who "organise death routes, traffic in human beings" as needing to "stop and repent."
- Later, the Pope celebrated open-air mass in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, criticizing European border policies that allow the Mediterranean and Atlantic to become "unmarked graves" while imploring communities to avoid the "silent shipwreck" of abandonment.
- Nearly 1,200 people died or disappeared last year on the Africa-to-Canary Islands route, and the leader of the 1.4 billion Catholics plans to visit Lampedusa on July 4.
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Leon XIV said goodbye from Spain this Friday, after taking off at six o’clock in the afternoon, with a morning of countercurrent gestures, which complete the great political message of this trip. The Pope dedicated his second day in the Canary Islands, like the first, to finding and embracing migrants, to dialogue with them. He did so precisely on the same day as the new Migration and Asylum Pact enters into force in the EU, which restricts cont…
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‘All of us are migrants’: Pope Leo ends Spain tour with Tenerife plea for dignity and aid
SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LA LAGUNA (Spain), June 12 — Pope Leo XIV told migrants at a reception centre on the Spanish island of Tenerife on Friday that “all of us are migrants”, on the final day of a weeklong visit to Spain focused on the plight of irregular immigrants.Tenerife is one of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic, which have become a gateway for tens of thousands of irregular arrivals seeking a better life in Europe.The leader of the world’s 1.…
Pope Leo XIV sharply criticized human traffickers and other profiteers of refugees and migrants during a visit to the Canary Islands. At a meeting with migrants and integration workers in Tenerife on Friday, he addressed those who profit from the plight and despair of many migrants, saying: "Stop it! Repent!" Due to a technical malfunction on his aircraft, the Pope's return flight was delayed, departing on a plane belonging to the Spanish royal …
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