Pope Leo XIV Visits France and Meets Migrants and Margialised People
- On Saturday, Pope Leo XIV visits Maison Bakhita in Paris, a Catholic center dedicated to sheltering migrants and marginalized individuals in need of support.
- Founded in 2021 by the Archdiocese of Paris, the 15,000-square-foot facility serves 150 people daily through language classes, carpentry training, and other vocational programs.
- During the 30-minute visit, Pope Leo will meet 40 volunteers and people in need, listening to personal stories from six individuals of diverse nationalities and faiths.
- Ahead of the Sept. 27 World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Pope Leo emphasized that "whatever our political convictions, we all share a common humanity."
- With the French presidential election just seven months away, several candidates have made controlling immigration a central campaign promise amid rising anti-migrant rhetoric.
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Pope Leo to visit migration center in Paris that welcomes all, no matter their legal status
Pope Leo XIV will open his second day in Paris with a special visit. On Sept. 26, he will cross the threshold of Maison Bakhita, a facility run by the Archdiocese of Paris dedicated to providing shelter for people in extreme need, most often migrants.
A solemn Mass is scheduled for today, to be presided over by the Pope in the Plaza da Concordia and in the Campos Elysios (14h00, Lisbon time), in which some 600,000 faithful must participate, under strong security.
Leon XIV will celebrate this afternoon a mass in Plaza de la Concorde in which 600,000 people are expected to attend.
Pope Leo XIV asked, on Saturday (26), that he "acquaint himself with dignity and peace" during a meeting with migrants, hours before a mass Mass in Champs-Élysées, Paris, for 600,000 people, as part of his first visit to France. At a time when extreme-right parties advance in Europe with an anti-immigration speech, the American-Peruvian pontiff decided to visit the Bakhita House, a Catholic association supporting migrants, where he heard the tes…
Leon XIV began the second day of his visit to France this Saturday with a meeting with migrants in Paris. The pope pleaded on the importance of "meeting and living together in dignity and peace".
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