Fri. Feb 7th, 2025

NNA – quot;The death of migrants in the Mediterranean is an open wound in our humanity,quot; Pope Francis was quoted as saying by quot;Agence France-Pressequot; on Sunday, after a series of drowning accidents in which many died.

The 86-year-old Pope said during the weekly Angelus prayer that he quot;prays for 41 people who went missingnbsp;this week,quot; according to the testimonies of four people who were rescued at sea and disembarked on the Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday.

The Pope described as quot;painful and shamefulquot; the numbers of the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations, which reported on Saturday that the death toll of migrants who died in the Mediterranean amounted to at least 2060 people since the beginning of the year.

According to the agency, more than 1,800 of them died in the central sector of the Mediterranean, that is, between North Africa and Italy, the most life-threatening migration route in the world.

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