Two moving moments during Pope Francis’s visit at the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesvos unfolded, when a weeping refugee started begging the Pope to bless him ‘Father please, bless me…”, said the crying man on his knees.

Pope blesses weeping refugee

In another incident a refugee woman started shouting ‘I am a Christian, please let me through’ and managed to break through the security to approach the Pope. She knelt down and started crying asking for his blessings.

Pope blesses crying Christian refugee 

Later, refugee children gifted the Pope with some drawings they had made. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Greek Orthodox Church Archbishop Hieronymus were by the side of the Pope during his short walk among the refugees. The three religious leaders proceeded to the port of Mytilene, where they addressed the gathered crowd and prayed for this refugees lost in the Aegean. The three heads of Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism threw wreaths into the sea in memory of the drowned refugees, while stressing the significance of the world embracing the suffering people fleeing war in Syria. The Pope is expected to offer 12 refugees asylum in Italy in a gesture of symbolism.