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Friday, September 18, 2015

Vatican parish takes in Syrian refugee family

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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