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Saturday, April 16, 2016

Pope makes provocative trip to Greece as EU deports migrants

[A man wrapped with a blanket chats with others in a camp set up by volunteers hosting around 250 migrants near the port of Mytilini, in the Greek island of Lesbos, on Friday, April 15, 2016. Pope Francis will visit the island Saturday joined by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the head of the Orthodox Church of Greece, Athens Archbishop Ieronymos II, a mission human rights groups hope will highlight the plight of refugees who fled their war-ravaged homes only to be denied entry to Europe.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)]LESBOS, Greece (AP) — Pope Francis is known for his symbolic gestures, but even by Franciscan standards, his visit to a Greek refugee detention center as the European Union implements a controversial deportation plan is as provocative as any he has undertaken.


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