The nativity seen should remind us of the marginalized, the pope said.

“I am very aware that my ethnicity is dying.”

"We were concerned about the levels of intolerance, of attitudes hardening, of attitudes of exclusion."

“We are not going to engage in law enforcement activities solely based on someone’s immigration status."

The day before Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, Pope Francis said he would make no judgments about the candidate and was interested only in the impact his policies would have on the poor.

The move to shut down the camp put further pressure on the British government to accept more of the refugees who have been piling up at Calais, especially the camp’s many unaccompanied children. Almost all the refugees had been hoping to make it to Britain. In mid-October, as the first young p