ANSA)
- Vatican City, December 19 - Pope Francis said Thursday that closing ports is
not the way to stop the flow of migrants. “It is not by blocking the ships that
the problem is solved,” the pope said as he greeted 33 refugees recently
arrived in Italy from the Greek island of Lesbos through a humanitarian
corridor after the Vatican’s intervention. “Serious efforts must be made to
empty the detention camps in Libya, evaluating and implementing all possible
solutions.”We must denounce and prosecute traffickers who exploit and abuse
migrants. “Economic interests must be put aside in order to focus on the
person, each person, whose life and dignity are precious in the eyes of God.
“We
must help and save, because we are all responsible for the life of our
neighbour, and the Lord will ask us to account for this at the moment of judgment.”
