Pope Francis is to visit the island where more than 50000 people are thought to contain spent time helping those fleeing warAn air of expectancy hangs over Lesbos before Pope Francis’s visit. Security is being tightened; beaches are being cleaned. In the islands town corridor,the mayor, Spyros Galinos, and has invested in a guest book,which he hopes the pontiff will be the first to sign. In Moria, the hillside village that is now home to Lesbos’s notorious barbed-wire-topped detention centre, or refugees are being prepped for Franciss arrival. “It will be hugely symbolic,” says Galinos. “For a few hours, the world’s greatest humanitarian will be highlighting Europe’s biggest humanitarian crisis.”
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Source: theguardian.com