{"id":2020560,"date":"2026-06-30T09:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2020560"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:32:13","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-to-visit-european-migrant-hotspot-of-lampedusa-on-4-july-vatican-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2020560","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV to visit European migrant hotspot of Lampedusa on 4 July, Vatican says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/81\/86\/57\/1200x675_cmsv2_606d11e9-470a-58e0-bd79-ff645d5abc1c-9818657.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"abe-2906158-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-1 m-modeDesktop-1 m-modeXL-1\" data-nid=\"2906158\" data-cid=\"9819507\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<figure id=\"abe-2906158-label-pos1-c-latest-stories\" 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class=\"c-article-redesign-title\">\n                            Pope Leo XIV to visit European migrant hotspot of Lampedusa on 4 July, Vatican says<\/h1>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-video u-position-relative \">\n<div class=\"js-superdiv u-aspect-ratio-16x9 u-position-relative \" data-sponsored=\"Partner content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-poster-img c-article-media__img\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/81\/86\/57\/1536x864_cmsv2_606d11e9-470a-58e0-bd79-ff645d5abc1c-9818657.jpg\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Migrants from Syria and Libya in a wooden boat call for help south of the Italian island of Lampedusa, 11 August, 2022\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-caption u-position-absolute\"><i id=\"article-caption-content\" class=\"c-article-caption__content\"><span class=\"c-article-caption__text\"><br \/>\n              Migrants from Syria and Libya in a wooden boat call for help south of the Italian island of Lampedusa, 11 August, 2022<br \/>\n                    <span class=\"u-color-white\">&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-article-caption__copyright\">Copyright\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-article-caption__credit\">AP Photo<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-copyright c-article-image-copyright--novideo\">\n      Copyright\u00a0AP Photo\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"h-grid o-article-newsy__main__body u-article-content\">\n<div class=\"o-article-newsy__contributors-publication-date\">\n<div class=\"c-article-contributors\">\n  By&amp;nbspStefania De Michele&amp;nbsp&amp;&amp;nbspGavin Blackburn\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-publication-date\" data-timestamp=\"1782811933\">\n         Published on<br \/>\n            <time datetime=\"2026-06-30 11:32:13 +02:00\">30\/06\/2026 &#8211; 11:32 GMT+2<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-share-comment u-align-items-center u-display-flex\"><span 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src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Vatican announced the three-and-a-half hour visit in April which is scheduled to take place on the same day as the pope&#8217;s native United States marks Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV has been outspoken on the issue of migration and has already visited one of Europe\u2019s migration hotspots, Spain\u2019s Canary Islands, where he stressed the need for a shared response to one of the archipelago\u2019s biggest challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The pontiff arrived in Gran Canaria earlier in June where he was greeted by Spain\u2019s Prime Minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, together with national, regional and local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Human dignity has no passport&#8221;, the pope said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, here, by the sea, every life that arrives asks us what remains of our humanity. Sooner or later, we shall know whether we were able to safeguard it or whether we let indifference speak for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/81\/86\/57\/808x539_cmsv2_5d3e80dd-f680-5314-94b8-42647001b729-9818657.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Leo XIV waves during the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter&apos;s Square at the Vatican, 29 June, 2026\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Pope Leo XIV waves during the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter&#8217;s Square at the Vatican, 29 June, 2026<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Canary Islands are a popular entry point for migrants trying to reach Europe from Africa but the crossing, mostly from Morocco, is fraught with risks.<\/p>\n<p>More than 3,000 people died trying to reach Spain throughout 2025, an NGO said in December.<\/p>\n<p>The Right to Life Monitoring 2025 report indicated that of the 3,090 deaths, 192 were women and 437 were minors.<\/p>\n<p>Caminando Fronteras logged a record of more than 10,000 deaths at sea on the way to Spain in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian island of Lampedusa is on another risky migrant sea route with people travelling from North Africa and occasionally as far away as Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>In early 2024, Italian authorities reported that just in a day and a half, more than 1,500 people arrived to the island, with 333 making landfall in one morning alone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/81\/86\/57\/808x539_cmsv2_a708ad47-ff6e-53cd-b43c-213cc98f61bb-9818657.jpg\" alt=\"Migrants disembark at the port of on &quot;La Estaca&quot; in Valverde at the Canary island of El Hierro, 26 August, 2024\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Migrants disembark at the port of on &#8220;La Estaca&#8221; in Valverde at the Canary island of El Hierro, 26 August, 2024<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The island&#8217;s authorities raised the alarm after the swell in arrivals overwhelmed local migration facilities despite regular transfers to other centres in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Advocating for migrants globally was also a priority for Pope Francis. He went to Lampedusa in 2013 on his first pastoral visit outside Rome and, three years later on the Greek island of Lesbos, he brought back with him a dozen Syrian Muslim refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Under Pope Leo XIV, the Catholic Church has continued to call for their humane treatment around the world, including decrying mass deportations in his home country, the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the pope exalted the first American saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, as a model for Christians today to care for migrants in need, after he visited her birthplace during a day trip to northern Italy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id data-event=\"widget_related\">\n<div class=\"c-widget-related__title\"><b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b><\/div>\n<ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">Pope Leo XIV calls for a stronger response to migration crisis during Canary Islands visit<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">Baby dies of hypothermia as migrants reach Lampedusa overnight <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV, who has clashed with the Trump administration over its migrant crackdown, urged young people in particular to learn about Cabrini\u2019s life and service, once again confirming history\u2019s first US pope as the heir to Pope Francis in prioritising the plight of migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Cabrini, the patron saint of migrants, is well known to many Americans for her work caring for Italian immigrants in the United States at the turn of the last century.<\/p>\n<p>Her work went beyond the US, however, as she crisscrossed the globe building schools, hospitals and orphanages for those who had nothing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div 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data-key=\"articleBody\">Pope Leo XIV will visit the Italian island of Lampedusa on 4 July in a highly symbolic visit as he continues to advocate for migrants\u2019 rights.The Vatican announced the three-and-a-half hour visit in April which is scheduled to take place on the same day as the pope&#8217;s native United States marks Independence Day.Pope Leo XIV has been outspoken on the issue of migration and has already visited one of Europe\u2019s migration hotspots, Spain\u2019s Canary Islands, where he stressed the need for a shared response to one of the archipelago\u2019s biggest challenges.The pontiff arrived in Gran Canaria earlier in June where he was greeted by Spain\u2019s Prime Minister,\u00a0Pedro S\u00e1nchez, together with national, regional and local authorities.&#8221;Human dignity has no passport&#8221;, the pope said.\u201cToday, here, by the sea, every life that arrives asks us\u00a0what remains of our humanity. Sooner or later, we shall know whether we were able to safeguard it or whether we let indifference speak for us.\u201dThe Canary Islands are a popular entry point for migrants trying to reach Europe from Africa but the crossing, mostly from Morocco, is fraught with risks.More than 3,000 people died trying to reach Spain throughout 2025, an NGO said in December.The Right to Life Monitoring 2025 report indicated that of the 3,090 deaths, 192 were women and 437 were minors.Caminando Fronteras logged a record of more than 10,000 deaths at sea on the way to Spain in 2024.The Italian island of Lampedusa is on another risky migrant sea route with people travelling from North Africa and occasionally as far away as Lebanon.In early 2024, Italian authorities reported that just in a day and a half, more than 1,500 people arrived to the island, with 333 making landfall in one morning alone.The island&#8217;s authorities raised the alarm after the swell in arrivals overwhelmed local migration facilities despite regular transfers to other centres in Italy.Advocating for migrants globally was also a priority for\u00a0Pope Francis. He went to Lampedusa in 2013 on his first pastoral visit outside Rome and, three years later on the Greek island of Lesbos, he\u00a0brought back with him\u00a0a dozen Syrian Muslim refugees.Under Pope Leo XIV, the Catholic Church has continued to call for their humane treatment around the world, including\u00a0decrying mass deportations in his home country, the United States.Earlier this month, the pope exalted the first American saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, as a model for Christians today to care for migrants in need, after he visited her birthplace during a day trip to northern Italy.Pope Leo XIV, who has clashed with the\u00a0Trump administration\u00a0over its migrant crackdown, urged young people in particular to learn about Cabrini\u2019s life and service, once again confirming history\u2019s first US pope as the heir to Pope Francis in prioritising the plight of migrants.Cabrini, the patron saint of migrants, is well known to many Americans for her work caring for Italian immigrants in the United States at the turn of the last century.Her work went beyond the US, however, as she crisscrossed the globe building schools, hospitals and orphanages for those who had nothing.After she died in 1917, as a naturalised US citizen in the pope\u2019s native Chicago, Cabrini was beatified and then canonised in 1946 as the first American saint.\u201cLet us ask ourselves: if Mother Francesca were alive today, what would her missionary spirit tell her?\u201d the pope said.\u201cAnd what would a pope like Francis \u2014 who, as the son of Italian immigrants, made service to migrants one of the key priorities of his pontificate \u2014 ask of her?\u201d<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/06\/30\/pope-leo-xiv-to-visit-european-migrant-hotspot-of-lampedusa-on-4-july-vatican-says&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/81\/86\/57\/1200x675_cmsv2_606d11e9-470a-58e0-bd79-ff645d5abc1c-9818657.jpg&#8221;] Health news Billions of mRNA vaccine doses\u2019 review underpins their effectiveness Europe News Almost one in three Europeans expect standard of living to decline Earth News Europe\u2019s air quality improves as major pollutants \u2018steadily decrease\u2019 Travel News One of the world\u2019s most scenic rail journeys returns for summer Health news Billions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[226,36],"class_list":["post-2020560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-crawlmanager","tag-euronews-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2020560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2020560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2020560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2020560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}