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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

Pope Leo rails against migrant deaths on visit to Spain’s ‘dock of shame’

The pope holding sheets of paper speaking into a microphone with boats behind him
The event was held at the dock of Arguineguín in Gran Canaria. Photograph: Borja Suárez/Reuters

The constant flow of people embarking in small, rickety boats to migrate abroad should force a reckoning as to why we have built a world where so many “must risk death to seek life”, Pope Leo has said as he warned: “We cannot grow accustomed to counting the dead.”

Thursday’s speech in the Canary Islands, on the final leg of the pontiff’s week-long tour of Spain, contained Leo’s most pointed comments to date on migration.

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