{"id":6145,"date":"2026-06-13T00:11:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=6145"},"modified":"2026-06-13T00:11:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:11:44","slug":"pope-leo-warns-europes-human-traffickers-repent-or-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/pope-leo-warns-europes-human-traffickers-repent-or-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo Warns Europe&#8217;s Human Traffickers: Repent or Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the final day of a week-long visit to Spain, the pontiff directed his remarks specifically at criminal networks operating smuggling routes through the Canary Islands, according to <em>Breitbart News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pope Leo<\/strong> called on those who organize dangerous migration routes to cease their operations immediately. <em>Stop. Repent<\/em>, the first American pope declared, warning that perpetrators would have to answer before divine justice for every life lost and every family deceived.<\/p>\n<p>The spiritual leader emphasized the Catholic teaching that those who commit evil must confess their sins and make amends before death or risk being condemned to eternal hell.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1976351202842403040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The pope&#8217;s comments came as he toured the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago positioned off Africa&#8217;s western coast that serves as a primary gateway for migrants attempting to reach mainland Europe via perilous Atlantic crossings.<\/p>\n<p>This marks not the first time the leader of the world&#8217;s 1.4 billion Catholics has addressed mass migration and the criminal enterprises profiting from human desperation, as <em>Breitbart News<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, <strong>Leo<\/strong> characterized migration as a tragic drama requiring a coordinated global response. He advocated for what he termed safe and legal immigration pathways and called on nations to provide migrants with respectful welcomes and genuine integration opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The pontiff further described world peace as a true global imperative during his three-stop tour of Spain, during which he has grown increasingly vocal in his criticism of current global leadership approaches.<\/p>\n<p>The Canary Islands continue to experience sustained pressure from migration flows as thousands attempt the dangerous sea journey from Africa toward European shores each year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo warned human traffickers exploiting migrants to Europe to repent or face eternal damnation during his visit to Spain&#8217;s Canary Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":6144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[6455,2782,392,6456,6454,630],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-6145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-canary-islands","tag-catholic-church","tag-europe","tag-human-trafficking","tag-pope-leo","tag-spain","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6209,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions\/6209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6145"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=6145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}