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Pope Francis returned to the Greek island of Lesvos on Sunday to offer comfort to migrants at a refugee camp and blast what he said was Europe’s indifference and self-interest “that condemns to death those on the fringes.” “Please, let us stop this shipwreck of civilization!” Francis said at the …

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Pope Francis was heckled by an elderly Greek Orthodox priest on Saturday. “Pope, you are a heretic!” the priest shouted three times before police intervened and took him away. The Pope had arrived for a meeting with the head of the country’s Orthodox Church, evidence of the lingering distrust between …

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Pope Francis arrived at the international airport in Athens on Saturday morning. The leader of the Roman-Catholic Church arrived with a special Aegean flight from Cyprus and was welcomed by Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias as well as four children as a symbol for purity and members of the Catholic Church. …

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Pope Francis will be visiting the island of Lesvos  in late November or early December, when he will visit Greece. The island that has received the most refugees is included in the list of destinations of Pope Francis’ upcoming tour in the country, state-run news agency amna reported. The visit …

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Pope Francis is planning to visit Greece and Cyprus as part of a tour taking in Malta and Slovenia that will possibly take place later in the autumn, according to reports on Wednesday. “Slovakia is on the program, then Cyprus, Greece and Malta,” the pontiff told Spain’s Cope radio, confirming …

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Pope Francis said on Sunday that he is “deeply pained” over the decision by Turkey to change the status of Hagia Sophia into a mosque. “My thoughts are in Istanbul, I’m thinking of Hagia Sophia and I’m deeply pained,” the Pontifex said on Sunday, during his weekly blessing in St …

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During a phone conversation with Pope Fancis on Wednesday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis invited him to visit Greece when the circumstances allow it. The Pope has been invited to visit landmark sites of the early history of Christianity, “in the footsteps of Apostle Paul.” Mitsotakis and Pope Francis spoke about …

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The Vatican says Pope Francis has dispatched a close aide to the Greek island of Lesvos to bring back 33 asylum-seekers to Rome. During his visit to Moria in 2016, the Pope had taken three Syrian families, a total of 12 people with six children among them, to the Holy …

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Pope Francis has suggested Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras should be awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize due to his contribution to solve the Migration crisis. “I once spoke to a politician, a man that I respect and I will say the name: Alexis Tsipras,” the Pope told journalists during …

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Three Syrian refugee families, a total 12 people, among them six children, were the lucky ones to be “adopted” so to say by the Holy See and accompany Pope Francis to back to Rome. The three refugee families had practically zero chance to be relocated to any EU country, as …

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In a strong symbolic message to EU’s member countries, Pope Francis will leave the island of Lesvos with 10 refugees from the so-called vulnerable groups: sing-parent families, mothers with children, people with disabilities or health problems. the refugees have arrived in Greece before March 20th, when the EU Turkey Deal …

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One day before flying to the Greek island of Lesvos to visit the refugees and migrants in the detention center, Pope Francis prayed for for his visit to Greece tomorrow Saturday. Pope Francis in  Santa Maria Maggiore Church in Rome. The press office of Vatikan said that the Pope offered …

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The leader of Catholic Church, Pope Francis, will visit the island of Lesvos to express his solidarity with the refugees and migrants. The visit will be strictly unofficial and is expected to take place next Friday, April 15th 2016. Pope Francis and the head of Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop of …

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