Pope Francis argued that the solution lay with solving the problems in their countries of origin, and urged compassion for ...

The plight of migrants was one of Pope Francis’ top priorities. In 2013, the newly elected pontiff made his first pastoral ...

Starting from his election in 2013, Pope Francis placed the issue of migration at the heart of his agenda, criticizing ...

On the evening of April 21, eighty-five migrants were rescued by the Italian Coast Guard and landed at the Favarolo dock in Lampedusa. The patrol boats ventured out in the stormy sea, ...

The son of Italian immigrants in Argentina, Pope Francis sometimes invoked his own family history when speaking about ...

Despite the unresolved issues that many Catholics know are long overdue, Francis achieved far more for marginalized people ...

For those living on the island of Lampedusa, the death of Pope Francis has a very special meaning. For there was a very special bond between Pope Francis and this most southern part of Italy and which ...

Indeed, the Pope’s last public sermon on Easter Sunday before he died, words delivered for him at the Vatican by an ...

Advocating for migrants was one of Pope Francis' top priorities ... Francis traveled to the Italian island of Lampedusa — a speck in the Mediterranean whose proximity to North Africa put ...