NPR (Jason DeRose) - Pope Leo defends migrants at 'dock of shame' in Spain
Pope Leo XIV visited the Canary Islands on Thursday, where he issued a forceful defense of migrants.
Pope Leo XIV visited the Canary Islands on Thursday, where he issued a forceful defense of migrants.
Pope Leo XIV is travelling to the Canary Islands to draw attention to the plight of migrants who risk their lives every year trying to reach Europe
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak is scheduled to arrive in the port city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands on Monday morning. The MV Hondius has spent the past six days sailing from the Canary Islands, where the remaining passengers were escorted off the vessel by personnel in [...]
The passenger, who had tested positive once in the Canary Islands, was being monitored in a special biocontainment facility in Omaha, until a new test came back negative.
The last evacuees disembarked in the Canary Islands, and a smaller crew is now en route to Rotterdam, where the ship will be disinfected, officials said.
U.S. health officials have brought Americans who were aboard the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius back home aboard a medical repatriation flight. Passengers were being evacuated from the ship, anchored off Spain’s Canary Islands, on Sunday. Spanish nationals were the first to leave, the Associated Press reported, followed by French and Canadian nationals. A Dutch plane was set to carry Germans, Belgians, and Greeks, and the U.S. plane arrived Sunday evening. #hantavirus #health #cruiseship
On Sunday, passengers began leaving the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius after it arrived off Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands.
The MV Hondius, the cruise ship that had carried passengers infected with hantavirus, anchored off the Spanish territory, where other passengers would soon disembark.
The cruise ship will arrive on the island of Tenerife, part of the Canary Islands of Spain, officials said. All of the passengers will then be evacuated to their home countries.
There are currently 150 passengers still on the MV Hondius.