Pope tells traffickers of migrants in the Canary Islands: Stop, repent or face God's wrath

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA LAGUNA, Spain — Pope Leo XIV warned people smugglers on Friday that they will face God's wrath for exploiting the desperation of migrants, demanding they stop and repent during his final day in this epicenter of the African migration route to Europe. For the second day in a row in the Canary Islands, the American pope insisted on the inherent dignity and rights of migrants and demanded they be welcomed and integrated into society, in some of his strongest comments on th