Vatican Deputy Secretary of
State Cardinal Angelo Becciu told ANSA Wednesday it was
unacceptable to conduct politics at the expense of migrants'
lives.
"Clarification on the subject was needed, it isn't right that
the burden of reception should be assumed only by the most
physically exposed countries like Italy and Greece, and not by
the whole European Union," he said.
"But it is unacceptable that ships loaded with human beings
should be used to advance political positions".
He was referring to the Italian government's new hard line on
migrants, turning away NGO ships and forcing other EU countries
to let them dock.
Becciu added: "I recall what Pope Francis said recently:
migrants are human beings not numbers!
"It may be unpopular to defend the marginalised today but
neither the pope nor the Church can fail in their mission".
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