(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 31 - Pope Francis said on a plane flying over the Sahara desert taking him an a trip to the DRC and South Sudan Tuesday that people should spare a thought for the migrants who didn't make it across the desert in their quest for a better life.
    The Pope, on his way to the Democratic Republic of Congo, flying over the Sahara desert, asked journalists to think and pray in silence for "all those people who, seeking a bit of well-being and freedom, did not make it".
    He also asked them to pray for all those who, trying to reach the Mediterranean, ended up in "lagers (brutal detention camps) and suffer there.
    "We pray for all those people", said the Argentine pontiff.
    (ANSA).