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In this picture provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis meets relatives of victims and survivors of the Lampedusa deadly migrant shipwreck during a private audience at the Vatican, Wednesday Oct. 1, 2014. Around 370 people, most of them Eritrean and Syrian asylum-seekers, drowned on Oct. 3, 2013 when their smugglers' boat capsized off the island of Lampedusa. Pope Francis has called for the Europe to open its doors to refugees as he marked the anniversary of the deadly shipwreck. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)

In this picture provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis meets relatives of victims and survivors of the Lampedusa deadly migrant shipwreck during a private audience at the Vatican, Wednesday Oct. 1, 2014. Around 370 people, most of them Eritrean and Syrian asylum-seekers, drowned on Oct. 3, 2013 when their smugglers' boat capsized off the island of Lampedusa. Pope Francis has called for the Europe to open its doors to refugees as he marked the anniversary of the deadly shipwreck. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)

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