Pope Francis on Friday said both US presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Kamala Harris were "against life", the former for his hardline immigration stance and the latter for her pro-abortion stance, and said America must choose "the lesser of two evils" on November 5.
Speaking on his flight back to Rome from a 12-day Indo-Pacific tour, Francis said: "Both are against life, both the one who throws out migrants and the one who kills children.
"Throwing away migrants, not giving them the ability to work, not giving migrants welcome is a sin, it is serious,".he said, and, on abortion, "it is killing a human being. You don't like the word? But it is killing".
He concluded: "In modern politics it is generally said that not to vote is bad: it is not good, you have to vote and you have to choose the lesser evil".
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