Pope to send message against remigration with Lampedusa visit says bishop

Pope Leo XIV will send a message

against remigration with his visit to the migrant stepping stone

island of Lampedusa on Saturday, a local bishop said Friday.

Leo's visit to a site closer to Africa than Italy, 13 years

after his predecessor Francis condemned the "globalisation of

indifference" on an historic trip to Lampedusa, is "a clear

message," a "caress to those men and women who found the end of

their journey in Lampedusa," a "message" also against

"remigration," in a "journey" that "the Pope is undertaking and

has continued, especially in these last stages, the Canary

Islands and the visit to the memory of Mother Cabrini in Pavi",

said Monsignor Alessandro Damiano, Archbishop of the Archdiocese

of Agrigento.

Another message from the Pope will be that "life at sea must

always be saved."

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