MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Friday that migrants who risk drowning at sea “must be rescued,” calling it “a duty of humanity, a duty of civilisation”.
Speaking at the start of a trip centred on migration issues in the Mediterranean, he said that impeding such rescues is “a gesture of hate”.
He spoke at an inter-religious prayer service at a monument dedicated in the port city of Marseille to those lost at sea.
(Reporting by Philip Pullella, Editing by William Maclean)
