Pope evokes refugee 'suffering' on Migrants Day
Source: AFP
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Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis on Sunday spoke out about the plight of refugees and the traffickers who want to "enslave" them before visiting a parish near Rome's main railway station that cares for immigrants and homeless people.
"Let us think of the many migrants, the many refugees and their suffering," Francis, the son of Italian immigrants to Argentina, said on a day the Catholic Church marks as the World Day of Migrants and Refugees.
"Their lives are often without jobs and without documents and with a lot of pain," the 77-year-old said in his weekly address to a crowd of thousands of pilgrims from a window overlooking St Peter's Square.
Francis has shown particular attention to the issue and in his first trip as pope in July 2013 he visited the Italian island of Lampedusa, where tens of thousands of asylum-seekers arrive from North Africa every year.
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