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December 01, 2021 "I ask you to accompany me with prayer". Pope Francis asked the faithful at the end of the general audience. A prayer for his trip that will bring him back to Greece. "Tomorrow I will go to Cyprus and Greece, to pay a visit to the dear communities of those countries rich in history and civilization ".



A prayer because he explains" will be a hug to Christians of various confessions ". A prayer, for a journey that is something more, is “an opportunity - Francis said - to bring humanity closer to the flesh of so many migrants in search of hope.



A journey and a possibility, that Pope Francis will bring a group of 50 refugees from Cyprus to Italy, as happened on his visit to the Greek island of Lesbos in April 2016.



Father Jerzy Kraj, Franciscan religious, patriarchal vicar for Cyprus, confirms what was said yesterday by the director of the Vatican Press Office, Matteo Bruni "is an option under consideration - says the vicar to SIR, on the eve of the Pope's arrival in Cyprus. The Community di sant'Egidio is at work. The government has spoken of 50 migrants whose positions are now being examined by the authorities. It is a question of waiting for the completion of the bureaucratic process ".



“In any case they would not have embarked on the papal flight - adds Father Kraj.

Meanwhile, 12 of them will participate on Friday in the Pope's ecumenical prayer with migrants in the Franciscan parish church of Santa Croce in Nicosia.