VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis led a prayer vigil at the Vatican on Thursday to recall the plight of migrants and refugees, saying everyone is “called to be neighbors” and to “save their lives, to heal their wounds and to soothe their pain.”
The prayer service took place during the Synod on Synodality — a gathering of bishops and laypeople taking place in Rome this month — and comes as large numbers of people in recent years have been forced to flee the Global South to places like the United States and Europe.
