Pope Francis is visiting the French port city of Marseille
It’s an increasingly lonely voice in Europe, where some countries are turning more and more to border fences, repatriations andFrancis is presiding over the closing session of a gathering of Mediterranean Catholic bishops, but his two-day visit that begins Friday is aimed at sending a message well beyond the Catholic faithful to Europe, North Africa and beyond.
“France will not take in migrants from Lampedusa,” French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said this week on national TF1 television. “It’s not by taking in more people that we’re going to stem a flow that obviously affects our ability to integrate” them into French society, he said. Marseille is one of the most multicultural, multireligious and multiethnic cities on the shores of the Mediterranean, long characterized by a strong presence of migrants living together in a tradition of tolerance. France’s INSEE national statistics agency show that there were more than 124,000 immigrants in a city of 862,000 residents in 2019, or about 14.
“They choose to leave, but because they did not necessarily have the choice to stay,” Aveline said of this year’s message. “You seldom leave your country with joy in your heart.”
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