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Pope Francis delivers a speech at the Moria detention centre in Mytilene last year (Photo: Getty)

During his general audience, Pope Francis urged pilgrims to welcome refugees

Pope Francis has described Europes refugee and migrant crisis as the biggest tragedy since the Second World War.

Francis urged tourists and pilgrims in St Peters Square during his weekly public audience on Wednesday not to forget the problem but instead welcome and help refugees. He also encouraged efforts to integrate them in society.

He said integration should keep in mind the reciprocal rights and duties of those who welcome and those who are welcomed.

Francis repeatedly urged Europe to do more to help the hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and economic migrants who had arrived in recent years.

On Friday, Francis will have the opportunity to urge Europe to improve ways to handle the migrant crisis when he addresses leaders of the European Union nations on the eve of a summit in Rome.

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Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday that congressional Democrats wont be able to savor very long the survival of Obamacare, after Trump administration and House Republican leaders lost a bid to repeal and replace the law.

Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats, actually said yesterday was a victory for the American people, Mr. Pence told an audience in Charleston, West Virginia. That victory wont last very long. We will end the Obamacare nightmare and give the American people the health care they deserve.

President Trump and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan canceled a House vote Friday on legislation to replace and repeal Obamacare after they couldnt muster enough support from conservative lawmakers and some moderate Republicans. Democrats were united against the measure.

Mr. Trump spent much of Saturday at his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. He said after the high-profile loss that Obamacare will soon fail on its own due to rising costs and dwindling options for consumers.

The vice president said he was inspired by Mr. Trumps determination to keep his promise to the American people on health care.

You saw his resolve, Mr. Pence said.

He said the administration will turn next to cutting taxes, including lowering the corporate tax rate to 15 percent from the current 35 percent.

We want to cut taxes for every American, he said.

Referring to Senate Democrats decision to try to filibuster the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch, Mr. Pence also said Saturday that the nominee will be confirmed one way or another. He said the administration is counting on the support of West Virginias senators, Democrat Joe Manchin III and Republican Shelley Moore Capito.

If we can get the help of Joe Manchin and with the help of Shelley Moore Capito, Judge Neil Gorsuch will soon be Justice Neil Gorsuch, Mr. Pence said.

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In the fight to replace Obamacare, Vice President Mike Pence decided to pay the Freedom Caucus a visit. But it's who's missing that has everyone talking. Nathan Rousseau Smith (@fantasticmrnate) explains. Buzz60

Vice President Mike Pence is expected attend an NCAA South Regionals game at FedExForum.(Photo: Nick Thomas/The Blade via AP)

WASHINGTON Vice President Mike Pence wont be attending an NCAA basketball game in Memphis on Friday after all.

Pences office confirmed that he is postponing trips to Memphis and Little Rock, Arkansas, to stay in Washington and work with President Donald Trump as the House prepares to vote on a GOP plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.

The House is scheduled to vote on the legislation later Friday.

Pence had planned to attend NCAA South Regionals in Memphis. The former Indiana governor has ties to one of the four teams that is playing in Memphis for a bid in the Elite Eight.

Pence's wife, Karen, attended Butler. In a 2013 profile story, a reporter for The Indianapolis Star wrote: "She smiles as she quotes him saying that until Butler made it to the Final Four, 'Our kids didn't know I was making an alumni reference when I called mom a bulldog.' "

Butler made it to the Final Four in 2010 and 2011, both times losing in the championship game. The Bulldogs play North Carolina in the Sweet Sixteen at 6:09 p.m. Friday at FedExForum.

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As VPMike Pence prepared to come to Jacksonville last Saturday to sell theAmerican Health Care Actto Florida, some of the best members of the media dreaded it.

A TV persons reaction: Oh, God, I hope I dont get called in.

A print guys take: I hate watching these politician events.

In the end, neither of them were there. Nor were any of the real agenda setters in the local press. The local press turnout was sparse. The national correspondents were no-names. It turned out, a week later, all that was a bad sign.

Also a bad sign: the facility where the event was held an envelope manufacturing plant had the virtues and drawbacks of a secure warehouse setting.

The principle virtue: fencing and police at the perimeter of the building and blocks away controlling ingress and egress managed to keep the protesters away a determined band of Democratic/Progressive activists kept, for the most part, out of the medias line of sight.

The drawbacks were myriad.

One such drawback: no restrooms for the public. While there were portalets, there was no hand washing station. Politicians and the kind of party volunteers who made the apparently contested invite list love to shake hands. With those grins and grips on Saturday, they shared more than bonhomie.

Another such drawback: securitys key interest was in keeping the media in the pen.

Yes, yes, I know. Its 2017 and the media are the most dishonest people in the world, except for InfowarsandRussia Today and Fox and Friends, of course. But the people tasked with publicizing the event spent the whole time being watched.

We were forbidden to leave the pen after about 12:30. For me, a local guy who knew half the room, that precluded me from the kind of conversations I would have had with certain people in any other milieu.

However, the audience could come in the pen. This led to people approaching more than one female TV reporter and striking up conversations that werent of mutual interest.

So, beyond not getting the publicity the VP would have wanted, and beyond the ham-handed logistics of the event, what else went wrong?

The waste of political capital of local and state pols who made the trek.

President Trump supports the bill 100 percent, and we all do, Pence said. A new era for federal/state Medicaid partnership has begun.

LOL.

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry got a warm reception from the same folkswho sent him hate mail over not vetoingthe HRO, but his words now look pretty hollow given the inaction of the House, which couldnt get repeal and replace done when given a free kick on goal during what passes for the presidents honeymoon period.

Rep. John Rutherford may have enjoyed watching March Madness with the VP on the plane to Jacksonville, but he ended up at the periphery of the debate otherwise.

And Florida Gov. Rick Scott didnt help himself much either.

How much time did Scott spend conferring with the Trump administration on health care in recent months? How does this Trumpian botch affect his Senate run next year?

Scott, the most prominent Obamacare critic of any state governor, spent his entire administration rejecting the Affordable Care Act.

Pence rewardedthe governors messaging the day before in a press release and letter to HHS SecretaryTom Price. The VP vowed to allow states like Florida the ability to have a block grant to administer their plans, and a work requirement for coverage.

State solutions, Pence said, are the best way forward for Florida.

President Trump supports the bill 100 percent, and we all do, Pence said. A new era for federal/state Medicaid partnership has begun.

So, heres what happened in Jacksonville. The VP decided to make his stand here, giving Rutherford a platform because neighboringTed Yoho andRon DeSantis werent feeling this bill. The governor came in and got his moment in the spotlight. And Mayor Curry made the stop before going on Spring Break.

All of them got a news cycle.

But what happens the next time they try to sell a Trump initiative?

Will they be as useful?

After his re-election,George W. Bush said what good is political capital if you dont use it.

Then he wasted it and lost it for a solid decade, until he took up portraiture.

Can Donald Trump paint? And do we have to wait until 2027 to figure it out?

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