{"id":88885,"date":"2014-05-31T16:03:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T12:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=88885"},"modified":"2014-05-31T16:03:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T12:03:50","slug":"mass-migration-one-of-the-worlds-grave-issues-says-pope-francis-who-calls-on-governments-to-help-them-reach-europe-and-avoid-any-more-tragedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=88885","title":{"rendered":"Mass migration one of the world&#8217;s &#8216;grave issues&#8217; says Pope Francis who calls on governments to help them reach Europe and avoid any more tragedies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pope-Francis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-88884\" alt=\"pope Francis\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pope-Francis.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pope-Francis.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pope-Francis-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pope-Francis-455x300.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>The pope has urged governments to help migrants reach Europe, to avoid more tragic shipwrecks in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the International Labour Conference, Francis said that mass migration was one of the &#8216;grave issues&#8217; confronting our world today.<\/p>\n<p>The letter follows two tragic shipwrecks in the Mediterranean earlier this month. A boat carrying hundreds of migrants sunk 100 miles off the coast of Italy, killing at least 18 with dozens more unaccounted for. A few days earlier 40 people drowned when a boat carrying 130 people sunk off the coast of Libya.<br \/>\nMore than 40,000 have made the crossing in recent months often on overcrowded and unseaworthy boats. Italy says at least half a million more are awaiting a passage to Europe, in camps run by criminal gangs, on the coastline of Libya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pope has urged governments to help migrants reach Europe, to avoid more tragic shipwrecks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}