(ANSA) - VATICAN CITY, APRIL 01 - Pope Francis will leave tomorrow morning for Malta where he will stay until Sunday for a welcoming trip.
Announced for May 2020, and postponed due to the pandemic, the visit to the island in the center of the Mediterranean will have as its central theme that of immigrants but the words of the Pope are also awaited still on the war in Ukraine.
"The issue of migrants - emphasizes Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta - is always topical. If we look to Eastern Europe, the reality of migrants fleeing a violent, aggressive and unjust conflict is really clear, and invites us to welcome those fleeing from one's own nation, not out of whim, but out of exigency, out of necessity. For years, we in Malta have been a frontier that cannot be a barrier, but must be a point of comparison, a welcome point ", says Vatican media.
Tomorrow morning the first meeting will be with the authorities of the country who among other things come out of the elections that have confirmed the Labor leadership.
In the afternoon the Pope, aboard a catamaran, will instead go to Gozo for a prayer meeting at the national shrine of "Ta 'Pinu".
The meeting with the migrants will be held on Sunday afternoon, after a morning dedicated to a visit to the cave of San Paolo, in Rabat, and Mass at the Piazzale dei Granai in Floriana.
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