Pope Leo XIV concludes his week-long trip to Spain this Friday in Tenerife with a visit to the immigrant reception center of The Rootsin La Laguna. There he called for solidarity and the construction of a more welcoming society.. “We are all – in some way – migrants, we are all pilgrims on the way to the heavenly homeland. Let us help each other make this journey a more humane place for everyone, contributing what is within each one’s reach,” the Pope asked. Later he will offer a mass mass in Santa Cruz, before King Felipe accompanies him to the plane that will take him back to Rome. The migration drama has occupied a prominent place on the pontiff’s agenda in Spain. This Thursday he was in Las Palmas, where he visited the Arguineguín pier, which in 2020 became known as the pier of shame, due to the abandonment in which thousands of migrants were left after an unusual number of arrivals of cayucos. There he said: “We cannot get used to counting deaths. Human dignity does not have a passport nor does it lose value when crossing the border.”
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