Pope Francis visited the refugee camp on the Greek Island of Lesbos, to, according to him, destroy indifference and concerns Europe, reports Associated Press.
“Please let’s stop this crash of civilization!” – called Francis. “I ask every man and a woman, all of us to overcome the paralysis of fear, indifference that kills the cynical neglect, which carelessly sentences to the death of those who are on the periphery!” – He turned to Europeans.
Francis called to stop ignoring reality and shift responsibility for the fate of migrants on others. He condemned the situation in the Mediterranean, when people drown smugglers in boats trying to twist from the African coast to European.
In the refugee camp on Lesbosa Pope talked with migrants from Afghanistan, Iraq and Congo and other countries.
For the first time, Pontiff visited the island, one of the main points of the entry of migrants, in 2016 and took with you to Italy 12 Syrian refugees. Francis complained that since then “little has changed.”
According to the International Organization for Migration, since 2014, about 23 thousand migrants were killed at an attempt to reach Europe.