Refugee children line up to meet Pope at Greek detention centre

A group of unaccompanied children greeted Pope Francis as he arrived at the Moria migrant detention centre on the Greek island of Lesbos.

Refugee children line up to meet Pope at Greek detention centre

A group of unaccompanied children greeted Pope Francis as he arrived at the Moria migrant detention centre on the Greek island of Lesbos.

The teenage boys who have made the perilous journeys from their homelands to Greece alone were lined up at the entrance, shaking the hands of the pope and two other religious leaders. Some were holding a Syrian flag.

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