Pope Leo XIV says UK’s Chagos Islands deal ‘significant victory’

UK’s Chagos Islands deal ‘significant victory’, says Pope Just now Share Save Rachel Muller-Heyndyk BBC Share Save EPA Pope Leo XIV met members of the Chagos Refugees Group in Vatican City Pope Leo XIV has said he is “delighted” the UK has agreed to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Speaking to a delegation of 15 refugees from Chagos, Pope Leo said that the move represented a “significant victory” in their long battle to “repair a grave injustice”. Under the terms of a treaty signed in May, Mauritius will gain sovereignty of the islands from the UK, but allow the…