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

The Guardian UK Thursday 11 June 2026, 16:47 UTC By Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent 1 min read
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Pontiff calls on leaders to treat migrants more humanely as he concludes week-long Spanish tour in Gran CanariaThe 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...

Pontiff calls on leaders to treat migrants more humanely as he concludes week-long Spanish tour in Gran Canaria

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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