St Anna church answers Pope Francis’s call for Catholics across Europe to do something practical as well as feeling compassion for those fleeing war zone A Vatican parish has taken in a family of four refugees from Syria following an appeal by Pope Francis for every religious community across Europe to assist in the migrant crisis. The St Anna parish – Sant’Anna dei Palafrenieri in Italian – said on Friday that it had accepted one of two families it promised to take in: a father, mother and two children who fled their home in Damascus and arrived on 6 September. The family is Christian of the Catholic Greek Melkite rite. Continue reading...
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