EWTN News, Oct 24, 2025 / 10:14 am

The sinking of yet another migrant boat off the coast of Tunisia must spur leaders in Europe and Africa to address the root causes of migration that compel innocent people to embark on often deadly journeys, Archbishop Nicolas Lhernould of Tunis said.

In an interview with SIR — the news agency of the Italian bishops’ conference — published Oct. 24, Lhernould said the Oct. 22 sinking of a migrant boat off the coast of Tunisia that killed 40 people, including several infants, cannot be viewed as just “one more shipwreck” but as a loss of “unique people” whose “lives were extinguished.”

“As Pope Francis has said, we must never get used to these things,” the French-born prelate said.

“Unfortunately, shipwrecks have been recurring for years, and this one h

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