“In Morocco, how all the people gathered together to save Rayan. It was all the people there, working to save a child,” Pope Francis noted. “They put everything they had into it. Unfortunately, he did not make it.”
The pope said he had read about the story in the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, where he had seen photos of all the people gathered at the site of the accident. “Thank you to these people for this testimony,” he said.
The second story Francis highlighted on Sunday was that of a young man who had migrated to Italy from his home in Ghana. This story “will not appear in the newspaper,” the pope claimed.
“John, a Ghanaian boy, 25 years old, a migrant, who suffered everything that many migrants suffer to get here, and in the end he settled in Monferrato, he started to work, to make his future, in a wine company,” Pope Francis recounted.
He said John fell ill with cancer and was dying. When John was told this fact and asked what he would like to do, he said he would like to go back home to see his father.
“As he was dying, he thought of his father,” the pope explained. “And in that village in Monferrato, they immediately took up a collection and, medicated with morphine, they put him and a companion on a plane and sent him home so that he could die in his father’s arms.”
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