In Lampedusa, the Holy Father, reading the "signs of the times," appropriately positioned the church as the defender of those in search of safety and a better life — as the "mother to all." ...

“It all started there, from that route to Lampedusa which became the route for the entire Church. He came from another world and, taking us by the hand, led us to yet another.” It is difficult ...

At Lampedusa he railed against our indifference ... His sacramental gestures symbolized the love and mercy he wanted the church to bring to the world. He was the first Pope to take the name ...

And that's something that got to real people, even beyond the Catholic Church. POGGIOLI: The first papal trip was to Lampedusa, the island gateway to Europe for hundreds of thousands of migrants ...

LAMPEDUSA – With the improvement of weather and sea conditions, migrant landings towards Lampedusa have resumed with intensity. Today, Thursday, May 2nd, nine landings were recorded, totaling ...

He had much to say about both the church and the wider world ... he took a trip to the island of Lampedusa to highlight the plight of refugees in North Africa. Francis also traveled to the ...

Rescuers transported six bodies back to Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa along with the ... the director of the Italian unit for the Catholic church-run charity Caritas, per The Guardian.

The Argentine pontiff, who died on Easter Monday at the age of 88, dedicated his first visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa on 8 ... the head of the Church also denounced the "excesses of ...

He was committed to the poor (“I want a Church which is poor and for the poor,” he said in 2013), migrants (his first papal visit was to Lampedusa, a major migrant hub in the Mediterranean), and a ...