Pope lunch with refugees in Moria

rome - Pope Francis will be Saturday at his brief visit to Greece lunch with eight refugees. That happens in the refugee camp in Moria on Lesbos, where the asylum seekers are welcomed and registered immediately after arriving on the island.

The Catholic prelate will meet there, according to the Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi 150 children and young people and 250 others. He is in the company of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomaios I and Archbishop Hieronymus II. The religious leaders will sign a joint declaration after lunch.

The pope received upon arrival at the airport by the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who will accompany him during the trip. Except for a private meeting with Tsipras and his Orthodox colleagues Francis will be in the port of Mytilene pray for the victims of the refugee crisis and commemorate the dead. The visit to Lesvos, according to Lombardi,, a strictly humanitarian and ecumenical character. '