Popes returns with 12 refugees from Lesbos

His one-day trip to Europe’s migration hotspot culminated dramatically when three Syrian refugee families, all Muslim, returned with the pontiff to Rome, where they will be housed by the Vatican.The pope told reporters that his gesture was “a drop in the ocean” but

hoped that afterwards, “the ocean will never be the same again”.“All refugees are children of God,” he said aboard the papal plane on its flight back to Rome.The departure of the 12 refugees was the climax of an emotional visit that saw migrants kneeling in tears before the 79-year-old Roman Catholic leader.   “You are not alone… do not lose hope,” the pope, who was accompanied by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Ieronymos, the head of the Church of Greece, said at the Moria registration centre, where around 3,000 migrants are being held.The vast majority have requested asylum but will likely be deported u