{"id":83581,"date":"2026-06-12T08:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83581"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:05:14","slug":"pope-tells-traffickers-of-migrants-in-the-canary-islands-stop-repent-or-face-gods-wrath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pope-tells-traffickers-of-migrants-in-the-canary-islands-stop-repent-or-face-gods-wrath\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Tells Traffickers Of Migrants In The Canary Islands: Stop, Repent Or Face God\u2019s Wrath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Associated Press:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/pope-leo-xiv\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Pope Leo XIV<\/a><\/span>\u00a0warned people smugglers on Friday that they will face God\u2019s wrath for exploiting the desperation of migrants, demanding they stop and repent during his final day in this epicenter of the African migration route to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>For the second day in a row in the Canary Islands, the American pope insisted on the inherent dignity and rights of migrants and demanded they be welcomed and integrated into society, in some of his strongest comments on the politically divisive issue. \u201cBreak those chains and free those you hold in bondage,\u201d Leo said in a message to human traffickers that he delivered during a meeting with humanitarian aid organizations that help migrants on the island of Tenerife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Associated Press: Pope Leo XIV\u00a0warned people smugglers on Friday that they will face God\u2019s wrath for exploiting the desperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83582,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83581\/revisions\/83582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}