Respect urged for migrants

POPE Benedict XVI yesterday denounced riots between immigrants and Italians in southern Italy and said migrants have rights and are equally loved by God.

The pope said immigrants were looking for a better life in a country which needed them, yet they ran the risk of exploitation because of their status.

He invited all to “look in the face of others and discover that there is a soul, a history, a life, a person who God loves as he loves me”.

At least three dozen people were injured in two days of riots in the southern Calabrian town of Rosarno.

Hundreds of migrant workers rampaged after two migrants were wounded in a shooting.