“Immigrants who died at sea, from that boat that, instead of being a way of hope was a way of death”. These words were part of the homily given by Pope Francis on July 8 of this year, when he celebrated Mass on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Not far from Sicily and the closest Italian island to Africa, Lampedusa has become a destination for tens of thousands of refugees seeking to enter European Union countries. On Wednesday, October 3, less than three months after the pope’s visit, a …Read More