Pope warns G20 against 'dangerous alliances' damaging poor, migrants - paper

General view of the discussion table while German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seen on the screen above during the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

MILAN (Reuters) - Pope Francis warned leaders of the world's top 20 economies meeting in Hamburg against forming dangerous and distorting alliances that could harm the poor and migrants, in an article in Italian daily la Repubblica on Saturday.

"The G20 worries me, it hits migrants in countries in half of the world and it hits them even more as time goes by," the Pope was quoted as saying in a conversation with the paper's founder Eugenio Scalfari.