In Canary Islands, Pope Puts a Spotlight on Tragedies of Migration
- Pope Leo XIV visited Arguineguín in the Canary Islands, calling for an examination of conscience on migration and denouncing human traffickers while emphasizing the need to protect migrants and their dignity.
- Since 2020, over 50,000 irregular migrants have arrived in El Hierro, with nearly 30,000 arriving in 2024 alone.
- According to Spain's Interior Ministry, irregular sea arrivals in Spain dropped by 35.2% from January to May 2024 compared to the previous year, while land entries into Ceuta and Melilla increased by 210%.
- The Pope highlighted the importance of establishing legal migration routes, rescuing migrants, and cooperating against human traffickers, urging that migrants should not be reduced to statistics and reminding that human dignity has no passport.
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A Pope can also bow down. Leo XIV did so yesterday morning “in front of the dignity of migrants.” A dignity that, he later recalled, “does not have a passport or lose value when crossing a border.” Not only in words: he bowed his body in one of the places where immigration ceases to be a theoretical debate and becomes a reality made of faces, suffering and hope.
Since he began his apostolic journey through Spain last Saturday, Leon XIV has starred in numerous scenes blessing babies. More information: The Pope cries out from the old pier of the shame of Arguineguín: "Human dignity has no passport"
Pope Leon XIV continued this Thursday his visit to Spain with a stop in the Canary Islands, where he focused on the migratory crisis. Pope Leon XIV, the first pope to visit these Spanish islands, toured Gran Canaria and Tenerife on a trip marked by meetings with rescue workers, volunteers and people dedicated to the reception of immigrants. From the dock of Arguineguín, one of the main points of arrival of immigrants to the Canary Islands after …
The president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, has again accompanied the Pope this Thursday in one of the acts of the Pontiff in his visit to Spain. The president of the government, who has gone from imposing lay funerals to signing up these days for the first time to a Catholic Mass to capitalize on the visit of Leon XIV, has held in his arms a baby in Arguineguín (Gran Canaria), imitating one of the most iconic images of the Holy Father, who …
In Canary Islands, pope puts a spotlight on tragedies of migration
GRAND CANARY – Pope Leo began the final leg of his Spanish tour Thursday with a visit to the Canary Islands – a papal first – hearing testimony of the tragedies migrants endure. “We cannot grow accustomed to counting the dead,” Leo said, “Human dignity has no passport and does not lose its value when crossing a border,” the pope said in a forceful speech after arriving Grand Canary in the Canary Islands June 11. At a meeting with organizations e…
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