With a video message recorded in the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV spoke during the presentation of the Lampedusa project's "Gestures of Welcome" nomination for UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage status.
Thanking the many workers of hope, "a bastion of that humanity that shouted arguments, atavistic fears, and unjust measures tend to undermine," he unexpectedly announced a visit to Lampedusa . "Today I'm at a distance," he said, "but I hope to be present soon, in person."
Just as - and it was Prevost himself who recalled it - "our beloved Pope Francis did, when he came among you: it was his first trip."
(Unioneonline)