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Pope visits Italy refugee island

Published: 09 Jul 2013 - 01:22 am | Last Updated: 31 Jan 2022 - 12:18 pm

Pope Francis looks at a laptop on a boat during his visit to Lampedusa Island, southern Italy, yesterday. The Pope celebrated mass on the tiny Sicilian island to commemorate thousands of migrants who have died crossing the sea from North Africa, underlining his drive to put the poor at the heart of his papacy.