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The appeal calls for “reaffirming multilateralism and the primacy of international law,” “placing the human person at the heart of development and international solidarity,” “protecting children and young people in the digital age,” and “assuming a shared responsibility towards creation and displaced peoples.”

The G7 nations are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

In a meeting with members of organizations that minister to migrants on the Canary Islands, Pope Leo XIV reflected on the importance of integrating migrants into their new societies and called on human traffickers to repent (video).

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass at the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and preached that “it is in giving of ourselves that we truly live” (video).

In a message for the Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests, which takes place each year on the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Pope Leo XIV addressed the world’s priests with the “words that God spoke to the people of Israel: ‘Be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy’“ (Lev 19:2; cf. 1 Pt 1:16).