Pope Francis is visiting the French port city of Marseille
, for centuries a multiethnic and multifaith melting pot, to amplify his call for the Mediterranean to be a place of welcome for migrants.
Francis, who has long lamented that the Mediterranean has become “the world's biggest cemetery,” confirmed his visit months ago, but it comes asis once again coping with an increasing number of migrants setting off in flimsy boats from Tunisia. “France will not take in migrants from Lampedusa,” French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said this week on national TF1 television. “It’s not by taking in more people that we’re going to stem a flow that obviously affects our ability to integrate” them into French society, he said.France
Marseille is one of the most multicultural, multireligious and multiethnic cities on the shores of the Mediterranean, long characterized by a strong presence of migrants living together in a tradition of tolerance. France’s INSEE national statistics agency show that there were more than 124,000 immigrants in a city of 862,000 residents in 2019, or about 14.
“They choose to leave, but because they did not necessarily have the choice to stay,” Aveline said of this year’s message. “You seldom leave your country with joy in your heart."
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