Survivors and family members of African migrants who perished in a 2013 shipwreck near Lampedusa in the Mediterranean sea leave an audience with the Pope, Oct. 1, 2014. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA.

Rome Newsroom, Apr 20, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).

More than 34,000 migrants arrived by sea in 2020, up from 11,000 the previous year