Posted on Dec 5, 2021
Pope Francis returns to Lesbos, Greece and pleads for action on migrant crisis
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Pope Francis returned Sunday to the Greek island of Lesbos to offer comfort to migrants at a refugee camp and blast what he said was the indifference and self-interest shown by Europe "that condemns to death those on the fringes."
"Please, let us stop this shipwreck of civilization!" Francis said at the Mavrovouni camp, a cluster of white U.N. containers on the edge of the sea lined by barbed wire fencing and draped with laundry hanging from lines.
Arriving at the camp, a maskless Francis took his time walking along the barricades, patting children and babies on the head and posing for selfies. He gave a "thumbs up" after he was serenaded by African women singing a song of welcome.
It was Francis' second trip to Lesbos in five years and he lamented that little had changed since 2016, when Lesbos was at the heart of a massive wave of migration to Europe and Francis brought 12 Syrian Muslim refugees home with him aboard the papal plane.
Pope Francis returned Sunday to the Greek island of Lesbos to offer comfort to migrants at a refugee camp and blast what he said was the indifference and self-interest shown by Europe "that condemns to death those on the fringes."
"Please, let us stop this shipwreck of civilization!" Francis said at the Mavrovouni camp, a cluster of white U.N. containers on the edge of the sea lined by barbed wire fencing and draped with laundry hanging from lines.
Arriving at the camp, a maskless Francis took his time walking along the barricades, patting children and babies on the head and posing for selfies. He gave a "thumbs up" after he was serenaded by African women singing a song of welcome.
It was Francis' second trip to Lesbos in five years and he lamented that little had changed since 2016, when Lesbos was at the heart of a massive wave of migration to Europe and Francis brought 12 Syrian Muslim refugees home with him aboard the papal plane.
Pope Francis returns to Lesbos, Greece and pleads for action on migrant crisis
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Other places in the world are having much worse immigration problems than we are.
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CPL Earl Kochis
You don’t pay attention do you! You All are stuck on the fear wagon over Covid and can’t see what they don’t want you to see illegal immigration is a massive and major problem in America! But then keep drinking your koolaid snd all will just go away right?
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PFC David Foster
CPL Earl Kochis - I don't know how you read all that into what I said. I am not afraid of Covid or immigrants. I merely stated that other places have worse immigration problems than we do, for instance, "more than 1 million people, many fleeing war in Iraq and Syria, crossed from Turkey into Greece during 2015 and 2016, with Lesbos the busiest Greek crossing point". I actually do pay attention, that's from the posted article.
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CPL Earl Kochis
More than 100,000 a day have crossed our borders add that up and then speak!PFC David Foster
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Can they be housed in Vatican City until a permanent place can be found for them?
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