With a call to combat indifference, Pope Leo XIV paid tribute to the migrants who died in the dangerous crossing of the Atlantic from Africa to Europe. From the Spanish archipelago of the Canary Islands, the pontiff denounced the leaders who reject those who manage to survive the trip. In 2020, one of the islands' ports was dubbed the "dock of shame" due to the precarious conditions in which thousands of migrants were forced to live for months, amid a sharp increase in arrivals.