Welcome to migrants fleeing conflict, says Pope at Easter - Reuters Africa

* Pope complained about riots in Libya, North Africa

* Escape strife demands generous welcome for immigrants * delivers Easter greetings in 65 different languages

* Easter week test run for the beatification by John Paul II.

By Philip Pullella

Vatican City, April 24 Reuters) - Pope Benedict, complained in his Easter message of the world on Sunday, that the day of joy was marred by the war in Libya and Europe urged welcome desperate migrants flee unrest in North Africa.

The Pope 84-year-old donated marking his sixth Easter as a Roman Catholic leader, to the ground for more than 100,000 people in a St Peter's square decorated with 42,000 bright flowers and plants in the Chair to symbolize hope and love from Holland.

But the contrast between the joy of Easter season and the wars, poverty and suffering around Benedict, which delivered, wove Easter greetings in 65 different languages his sermon the around the world, especially in North Africa.

"Here, in this world of us, Alleluia still contrasted the Easter with the cries and weeping, the by so many painful situations arise: poverty, hunger, disease, war, violence," he said in its twice annual "urbi et orbi" (to the city and the world) message. ? More...

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