As usual, Pope Francis spent the first moments of the trip to Cyprus and Greece briefing journalists on the key points of this apostolic visit.
POPE FRANCIS
'It is a nice trip, but we will touch wounds. I hope that we will all be able to grasp the messages we find.'
During the flight, Spanish journalist Eva Fernandez gave the Pope a stuffed animal lost by a little boy along the coast while he tried to reach Lesbos.
French journalist Loup Besmond de Sennonville gave him a work of art made from tarps used by migrants in Calais, in the English Channel.
This is also the first time the Pope travels with ITA Airways, after Alitalia closed in mid-October.
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