ROME: Pope Leo XIV strongly affirmed the rights of the weakest against the ambitions of the powerful during an audience Saturday with refugees from Chagos, a contested Indian Ocean archipelago that is home to a strategic US-UK military base.History’s first American pope insisted on the right of the Chagossian people to return to their homes and hailed a recent UK-Mauritius treaty over the archipelago’s future as symbolically important on the international stage.Leo met with a delegation of refugees from Chagos, some 2,000 of whom who were evicted from their homes by Britain in the 1960s and 19

ROME: Pope Leo XIV strongly affirmed the rights of the weakest against the ambitions of the powerful during an audience Saturday with refugees from Chagos, a contested Indian…

Il Papa incontra il Chagos Refugees Group dopo la restituzione delle isole alle Mauritius, condannando gli esili forzati

Pontiff tells refugees that deal to give islands to Mauritius is success in long battle to ‘repair grave injustice’

The Pope has praised Keir Starmer's £35billion deal to surrender the Chagos Island to Mauritius as a 'significant victory' repaired a 'grave injustice'.

Pope Leo XIV said he hoped Mauritian authorities would ensure the refugees are able to return home.