Your trusted source

Insults in Italian replying to a tweet from Pope Francis flooded Twitter on Monday after he wrote about migrants, Euronews reported.

"Migrants are first of all human persons, and that they are the symbol of all those rejected by today’s globalized society," he tweeted

Users were quick to react to the tweet with some asking the pope to think instead of earthquake victims or of Vincent Lambert, the quadriplegic Frenchman whose parents recently accepted to end life support.

Some said the Pope should spend more time talking about Jesus and other religious topics.

The pontiff tweeted out a homily on the sixth anniversary of his visit to Lampedusa and remembered migrants who drowned trying to reach Europe.

Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has been at the centre of recent controversy concerning migrants rescued on the Mediterranean when he refused to let charity rescue vessels dock in Italian ports.

Last month his far-right League party introduced laws which would lead to heavy fines for any migrant NGOs which enter Italian waters.