Pope urges Europe’s Catholic churches to host refugees
May every parish, every religious community, every monastery, every sanctuary of Europe host a family, starting from my diocese of Rome,
Francis said at the end of his Angelus prayers in Rome on Sunday. “The two parishes in the Vatican these days …
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Europe Ignored the Wars in Syria and Libya. The Refugee Crisis Is the Price.
LONDON—Picking apart the layers of irony and hypocrisy that surround the European refugee crisis is like peeling an onion without a knife. At a train station in southern Moravia, Czech Republic, police pulled 200 refugees off a train and marked …
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Europe debates migrant quota buyout plan
European Commission officials are debating a proposal that would allow some EU countries to pay money in order to opt out of a mandatory quota system for accepting refugees, in a plan that could ease a stand-off between eastern and western members …
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