In a quiet corner of Lampedusa cemetery retired professor, Fabio Giovanetti waters plants and tidies rubbish from the graves of migrants of who have died crossing the Mediterranean Sea.

At least three migrants, including two young children, have died during a perilous sea crossing from Libya to Italy, ...

Advocating for migrants was one of Pope Francis' top priorities ... Francis traveled to the Italian island of Lampedusa — a speck in the Mediterranean whose proximity to North Africa put ...

The son of Italian immigrants in Argentina, Pope Francis placed the plight of migrants and refugees at the heart of his moral agenda.

departing from Lampedusa. To pass the time, with a gesture of affection the policeman who, together with his colleagues, escorted the group of migrants entertained the little ones, inflating and ...

A boat used by migrants and confiscated on Lampedusa, sits next to a painting by Abdalla Al Omari titled The Boat during a ...

In 2013 Pope Francis visited Lampedusa, where he cast a wreath in the sea in memory of migrants who had drowned His stance was not one that everyone agreed with. Italian politician Matteo Salvini ...

Sister Norma Pimentel, who runs Catholic Charities in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, received a surprise sponsorship to attend Pope Francis's funeral hours after his death.