Vatican City
Reuters
Pope Francis will visit Cyprus and Greece, including the Greek island of Lesbos to meet migrants, from 2nd to 6th December, a Vatican source said on Tuesday.
Francis will stay in Cyprus from 2nd to 4th December his first visit to the ethnically split Mediterranean island, the source said.
Pope Francis arrives to attend the meeting for the ecumenical pilgrimage to Rome, at the Paul VI Audience Hall, in the Vatican, on 25th October. PICTURE: Reuters/Guglielmo Mangiapane
Cyprus’s internationally recognised government is run by Greek Cypriots, while a breakaway administration in the north is recognised only by Turkey.
The source said Francis would leave Cyprus for Athens on 4th December. The next day, he makes a day trip to the Greek island of Lesbos, where in 2016 he visited the Moria camp and returned to Rome with a dozen Syrian refugees.
Moria camp was destroyed by a fire last year and replaced with another camp called Mavrovouni.
Francis is due to return to Rome from Athens on 6th December, the source added.
