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Nick Squires
The Telegraph
July 11, 2013
During his visit on Monday, Francis called for greater compassion for the tens of thousands of migrants from Africa and the Middle East who each year make the hazardous crossing from Tunisia and Libya to the remote island, Italy’s southernmost territory.
He said the migrants were “brothers and sisters of ours trying to escape difficult situations to find some serenity and peace.”
He prayed for the thousands of migrants who have drowned in the Mediterranean during boat sinkings – “they were looking for a better place for themselves and their families, but instead they found death,” he said.
While his remarks, made at an open air Mass near the island’s main harbour, were praised by humanitarian organisations, they were sharply criticised by members of Silvio Berlusconi’s PDL party and by the anti-immigration Northern League.
“I’d be happy if one of the boats sank,” said Erminio Boso, a hard-line member of the Northern League. “I don’t give a toss for what the Pope said.” Fabrizio Cicchitto, a senior member of Mr Berlusconi’s People of Freedom party, said there was a danger that the Pope’s remarks would encourage “dangerous and irregular” immigration run by criminal gangs of people traffickers.
