Don't send migrants back to Libya and ‘inhumane’ camps: Pope Francis

The Pope called on the international community to find concrete ways to manage migratory flows in the Mediterranean Sea.

Pope Francis on Sunday made an impassioned plea to end the practice of returning migrants rescued at sea to Libya and other unsafe countries where they suffer “inhumane violence," and he called on the international community to find concrete ways to manage migratory flows in the Mediterranean Sea.

“I express my closeness to the thousands of migrants, refugees and others in need of protection in Libya,'' Pope Francis said in remarks to the public in St. Peter's Square. ”I never forget you, I hear your cry and I pray for you."

“So many of these men, women and children are subject to inhumane violence,'' he added. ”Yet again again I ask the international community to keep the promises to search for common solutions that are concrete and lasting to manage the migratory flows in Libya and all the Mediterranean.