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  • 3 years ago
The number of migrants dying in the Mediterranean is an "open wound" for humanity, Pope Francis says after a week marked by a string of deadly shipwrecks. At his weekly Angelus prayer on St Peter's Square, the 86-year-old pontiff offers his prayers for the 41 people reported missing on Wednesday by four survivors brought to safety on the Italian island of Lampedusa.

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00:00 Another tragic shipwreck has sunk a few days ago in the Mediterranean.
00:08 41 people have lost their lives.
00:12 I prayed for them.
00:14 And with pain and shame we must say that since the beginning of the year
00:19 almost 2,000 men, women and children have died in this sea
00:25 trying to reach Europe.
00:28 It is a lost land in our humanity.
00:32 (audience laughing)

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