The appeal calls for non-violent practice and strategies to be developed, promoted and taught in all Church agencies, seminaries, parishes and educational institutes.

Officials said to take advantage of the law the person would have to be eligible for health services in Canada.

When Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, visit migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos this weekend, they'll be doing more than sending a political message about the need to welcome refugees.Christianity's two most

Having HIV "is purely a medical condition," Loretto Sister Mary Owens said; she wants people to know "how unjust it is to stigmatize people...who are so vulnerable."

Their presence on Lesbos will be highly symbolic at a time of growing criticism of the EU-Turkey deal.

"People who are highly religious are more engaged with their extended families, more likely to volunteer, more involved in their communities and generally happier."