Pope urges Singapore not to forget rights of migrant workers

Chief executive of the Singapore’s National Parks Board Hwang Yu-Ning presents Pope Francis with a Dendrobium His Holiness Pope Francis, a specially bred orchid variety named after him at the Parliament House in Singapore (Gregorio Borgia/AP)

Pope Francis praised Singapore’s economic strength as a testament to human ingenuity but urged the city-state to look after the weakest, especially foreign workers.

The pope spoke as he opened the final leg of his tour through some of Asia’s poorest countries in one of the world’s richest.