Summary
Bulgaria's center-right coalition government, which includes three nationalist anti-migrant parties, wants the European Union to close its external borders to migrants and set up refugee centers outside the bloc.
An organizer at the refugee center told the pope that people of all faiths, including many Muslims, had volunteered to help the migrants, in a sign of inter-religious dialogue.
Francis later flew to Rakovski in southern Bulgaria, a predominantly Roman Catholic town in the overwhelmingly Eastern Orthodox country.
More than two million Bulgarians have left the country since the fall of communism in 1989 in search of better opportunities in western Europe and beyond.
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