Pope Leo on Saturday urged global leaders to avoid dividing their electorates with “sterile simplifications” to gain popularity and called on them to listen to the world’s cries for peace, in a forceful speech opening a week-long tour of Spain. Leo, who has angered US President Donald Trump by criticising his anti-immigration policies and the Iran war, will meet homeless people in Madrid and migrants in the Canary Islands during a visit he has said he hopes will set an example to the world about...
Huge gatherings are expected in the coming days for the first visit to Spain by a pope since 2011.
Police forcibly detained members of the Global Sumud Flotilla and their supporters at Bilbao Airport.