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March 31, 2019

Pope goes on a mission for migrants

The Pope is scheduled to visit Morocco, a nation of 35 million people who are mostly Muslim, March 30-31. Right, migrants are seen before disembarking at Del Canuelo in southern Spain in 2018. By mid-2018 the number of migrants arriving in Spain, usually from Morocco, had surpassed the number arriving in Italy.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis wanted to go to Morocco in December to draw attention to the need for international co-operation in assisting migrants and in alleviating the situations that force people to seek a better life outside their homeland.

Published in International
November 23, 2016

U.N. climate conference misses mark for small farmers, says D&P

File photo of the Paris climate conference from December 2015. Development and Peace said the the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Marrakech, which concluded Nov. 18, failed to address the needs of small farmers.

OTTAWA – The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Marrakech failed to address the needs of small farmers, said a representative from the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace.

Published in International