"Yes, it's on the table": this is how Pope Francis replied to journalists on the flight to Malta who asked him if he considered the invitation to go to Kiev.
The Pope thinks about the war in Ukraine and calls for "a human measure in the face of childish and destructive aggression that threatens us, in the face of the risk of an extended cold war that can suffocate the lives of entire peoples and generations".
Speaking in Malta, the Pope quotes Giorgio La Pira, who spoke of the "infantilism of humanity": "Unfortunately, that infantilism has not disappeared. to build bridges and to leave with the poorest ".
"The Mediterranean needs European co-responsibility to become once again the theater of solidarity and not to be the outpost of a tragic shipwreck of civilization".
The Pope said this, thanking Malta for its welcome to migrants.
The Pope recalls Europe because "some countries cannot take on the whole problem in the indifference of others! And civilized countries cannot sanction for their own interest murky agreements with criminals who enslave people".
"Mare Nostrum cannot become the largest cemetery in Europe," he added.
Pope Francis launches an appeal: "Let us help each other not to see the migrant as a threat and not to give in to the temptation to raise drawbridges and erect walls. The other is not a virus to defend against but a person to welcome".
It is therefore necessary to overcome, with regard to the people who cross the Mediterranean "in search of salvation", "to overcome" the fear and narration of the invasion "and stop considering as" primary objective "" the protection of one's own safety at all costs " .
