{"id":1057668,"date":"2021-11-26T15:14:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T20:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1057668"},"modified":"2021-11-26T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T20:14:11","slug":"pope-francis-will-bring-migrants-back-to-italy-after-visiting-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-will-bring-migrants-back-to-italy-after-visiting-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Will Bring Migrants Back to Italy After Visiting Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpope-francis-will-bring-migrants-back-to-italy-after-visiting-cyprus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1057668&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 Pope Francis will once again shuttle migrants back to Italy after his upcoming visit to Cyprus, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Cyprus government spokesman Marios Pelekanos told AP that the pope <a href=\"https:\/\/kesq.com\/news\/ap-national-news\/2021\/11\/25\/cyprus-pope-will-transfer-migrants-to-italy-after-visit\/\">intends<\/a> to transfer an unspecified number of migrants from Cyprus to Italy after his three-day visit to the country in December.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In early November, the Holy See Press Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2021-11\/pope-francis-apostolic-visit-cyprus-greece-announcement.html\">announced<\/a> that the pope would undertake a 5-day papal trip to Cyprus and Greece, spending December 2-4 in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, then visiting the Greek city of Athens and the island of Lesbos from December 4-6, after which he will return to Rome.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the pope visited Lesbos in 2016 he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/04\/16\/pope-francis-brings-12-muslim-refugees-back-italy-papal-plane\/\">brought<\/a> a dozen Syrian Muslims back to Italy with him on the papal plane. The Vatican describes the pope\u2019s move as a \u201cgesture of welcome\u201d and enlisted the community of Sant\u2019Egidio to provide the initial hospitality for the migrants.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18908634\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1171991352.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18908634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1171991352-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Pope Francis attends the unveiling of a sculpture called \u201cAngels Unaware\u201d by Canadian sculptor Timothy P. Schmalz depicting a group of 140 migrants of various cultures and from different historic times, following a mass for World Day of Migrants and Refugees on September 29, 2019 at St. Peter\u2019s Square in the Vatican. (VINCENZO PINTO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>At that time, the Vatican\u2019s Secretariat of State negotiated the transfer with the competent Greek and Italian authorities. While on Lesbos, the pontiff had visited the Moria detention center, which held some 3,000 asylum-seekers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Francis was accompanied on that visit by two other religious leaders, the Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew and the Greek Archbishop Ieronymos and the three leaders signed a joint declaration expressing their concern for Europe\u2019s migrant crisis.<\/p>\n<p>There the pope <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2016\/04\/17\/pope-francis-greece-migrants\/\">prayed<\/a> to God that all might \u201crecognize that together, as one human family, we are all migrants, journeying in hope to You, our true home, where every tear will be wiped away, where we will be at peace and safe in Your embrace.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.601593625498\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pope Francis said Sunday that he hears the cries of migrants in Libya and appealed for an end to repatriation and the establishment instead of \u201cregular migration routes.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hdUPT5mOYy\">https:\/\/t.co\/hdUPT5mOYy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1452279645215367172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Thursday, Mr. Pelekanos said the Vatican is coordinating the new migrant transfer with Cypriot authorities but revealed no specifics as to the number of migrants or the details of their trip.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy See Press Office said Francis is traveling to Cyprus and Greece in response to invitations from the two countries\u2019 governments and bishops\u2019 conferences.<\/p>\n<p>So far in 2021, Italy has taken in nearly double the number of migrants it received in 2020, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) <a href=\"https:\/\/migration.iom.int\/europe\/arrivals?type=arrivals\">reported<\/a> last Monday.<\/p>\n<p>As of November 22, Italy had received 61,251 mostly African migrants, all of whom have reached Italy by sea, whereas in 2020 the total for the year was 34,154. In 2019, the figure was just 11,471 for the entire year.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME \u2014 Pope Francis will once again shuttle migrants back to Italy after his upcoming visit to Cyprus, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday. 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