Pope Leo says history will condemn leaders who ignore migrant deaths

Pope Leo says history will condemn leaders who ignore migrant deaths

Pope Leo appealed to world leaders on Thursday (June 11) to treat migrants more humanely, warning in a visit to Spain's Canary Islands, one of Europe's migration hotspots, that history would condemn those who allowed people fleeing war or poverty to suffer. In what he called an "appeal to the conscience" of politicians in Europe and the international community, the first U.S. pope said that "human dignity has no passport and does not lose its value when crossing a border." "We cannot grow accustomed to counting the dead," said the pope at Gran Canaria's Port of Arguineguin, dubbed the "Dock of Shame" by relief organizations after some 1,000 migrants were stranded in squalid conditions there in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. Located more than 1,000 km (620 miles) from mainland Spain, the Canaries received a record 46,843 irregular migrants in 2024, compared with fewer than 1,000 in 2015, according to official data. More than 3,000 people died in 2025 trying to reach the islands, according to the NGO Caminando Fronteras.

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