Migrants: Pope, so much pain, 'know that I am close to you'

(ANSA) - VATICAN CITY, NOV 28 - Pope Francis' new appeal for migrants. "How many migrants are exposed even in these days to very serious dangers and how many lose their lives at our borders", "I feel pain for the news about the situation in which so many of them find themselves, those who died in the English Channel, of those on the border of Belarus, many of whom are children, of those who drown in the Mediterranean. So much pain - Pope Francis said at the Angelus - thinking of them. And those who are repatriated to North Africa and are captured by traffickers who turn them into slaves, sell women, torture men . Of those who again this week have tried to cross the Mediterranean looking for a land of well-being and finding instead a tomb ".

    "To the migrants who find themselves in these situations of crisis I assure my prayer, my heart too, know that I am close, to pray is to do", said the Pontiff.

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