Pope Francis appealed for peace and for the integration of migrants in a Europe continuing to reel from the war in Ukraine and an ongoing migrant crisis, as he made a brief day stop in Luxembourg.

The pontiff was in Luxembourg as part of a 26-29 September trip which will also take him to Belgium, one of the most secular and progressive countries in Europe, and where Catholicism has been in freefall and is openly viewed with hostility by many there. In Luxembourg, though, the Pope was among a friendly audience and in a country where the role of religion is viewed as being far from toxic.