While Europe closed its doors to refugees fleeing war, Pope Francis opened his heart on a visit to see them on the Greek island of Lesbos.
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How the world sees Greece
Saturday, April 16, 2016
World Press View: The Pope’s Greece Refugee Visit Shows Up World Apathy
Greek-Americans for Hillary Busy at Political Work
NEW YORK – It is one of the most exciting primary seasons in years and Greek-Americans are in the thick of it. A number of them are top aides in the remaining candidates’ campaigns and others are busy mobilizing the Greek-American community. Greek Americans for Hillary is a national committee of members of the […]
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Greek Gyros and Deli: Owner Dimitrios Tsahiridis is back in the restaurant business
Greek Gyros and Deli: Owner Dimitrios Tsahiridis is back in the restaurant business Dimitiri Tsahiridis' family-run restaurant in Branson is another big hit for him. Check out this story on news-leader.com: http://sgfnow.co/1Nf80Jd
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Pope’s trip to Greece bridges migrant and religious divide
Pope Francis joined leaders of the Orthodox Church during a landmark visit to Greece on Saturday forging an unprecedented unity between Western and Eastern Christians and urging a ‘common humanity’ towards migrants. For the full story on the Pope’s ...
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Archaeologists discover mass graves in Greece
Archaeologists have discovered two mass graves near the Greek capital , containing skeletons of 80 men who may have been followers of ancient would-be tyrant Cylon of Athens. Regional archaeological services director Stella Chryssoulaki laid out the theory ...
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Route of Poseidon gas pipeline still to be advised
Poseidon is the marine part of the Southern Gas Corridor project from Turkey to Italy through Greece
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“Human Condition” Photo Exhibition Features Greek Photographer Margarita Mavromichalis
“Human Condition”, a photography exhibition by seven internationally based artists presenting works that contemplate the world concerns of each artist, was presented at Umbrella Arts in New York City. The subjects of each project varied, ranging from ...
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Pope says his help for Syrian families 'a drop in the ocean'
[Pope Francis welcomes a group of Syrian refugees after landing at Ciampino airport in Rome following a visit at the Moria refugee camp on April 16, 2016 in the Greek island of Lesbos]Pope Francis, who visited the Greek migrant hotspot island of Lesbos Saturday, took three Syrian families with him on the papal plane back to the Vatican, describing the move as a "humanitarian gesture... (but) a drop in the ocean."
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Fine seascapes at Bonhams Greek Art sale in London
Bonhams Greek Art sale in the New Bond Street saleroom in London on 26 April offers four works which, in very different ways, shed light on the country’s centuries-old relationship with the sea. Fishing under the moonlight by Constantinos Volanakis is ...
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Pope Francis Takes 12 Syrian Muslim Refugees To Rome After His Visit To Greece
Pope Francis, who was on a visit to Greece to take stock of the European migrant crisis, has in an unprecedented move brought 12 Muslim refugees from Syria – to Rome on the Papal plane. The 12 refugees include six children belonging to three different ...
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Pope returns from Greek trip with refugees
… crisis at a camp in Greece where migrants wept at his … 's Orthodox Christians, and Greek Archbishop Ieronymos. On at least … . Francis said he admired the Greek people, whom, he said …
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With tightened belts, Greeks pin hopes on a bailout that is not going well
ATHENS, Greece – Shops and businesses in Greece have been forced to shut … government. Reports indicate that the Greek government and its bailout creditors … this country once again," Greek politician Sio Zoris told Rudaw …
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Greece’s Supreme Court Orders Extradition of Two Former Greek Bankers to Cyprus
Areios Pagos, Greece’s Supreme Court, ordered on Friday, the extradition of two former Greek bankers, Efthymios Bouloutas and Markos Foros, to Cyprus who were sought after when they failed to appear before a Cypriot court. The Greek judicial authorities had decided to extradite the two defendants in March, but the decision was appealed. However, the Cypriot authorities
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“Life Debag” Conference Highlights the Perils of the Use of Plastic Bags in Greece
Each Greek citizen uses, on average, between 240 and 500 plastic bags each year, many of which wind up in the sea or in the natural environment, degrading habitats, public health and the country’s tourism. This and other facts about the plastic bag and its perils in Greece were presented at a conference at the
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Foreign Minister Kotzias’ interview in the Athens daily “Efimerida ton Syntakton,” with ...
JOURNALIST: Is the climate in Europe starting to change for Greece with regard to the refugee issue?N. KOTZIAS: At this time last year, I tried to convince my European colleagues that, with the policy they were making, they didn’t see the waves of refugees that were coming. For example, they cut the money for the refugee camps in the region around Syria. Today, at long last, the EU is shaping a policy for supporting Jordan and Lebanon. I am asking that this be upgraded to a strategic relationship. They now see that we have better knowledge than many of the...
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The unemployment rate in advanced economies plunged sharply since the global financial crisis
Folks in advanced economies seem to be getting back on their feet. In a recent note to clients, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's global economist Ethan S. Harris shared a chart showing that the unemployment rate for advanced economies plunged sharply in the years since the global financial crisis, and is now around its 35-year average. However, he adds that although things have improved for most developed markets, peripheral Europe remains a big exception. Moreover, we should note that the youth unemployment rate is still astonishingly high in many of these places. For example, according to International Labour Organization's estimates for 2014, France's youth unemployment rate was around 25.3%, Portugal's was around 35.9%, Spain's was at 58.2%, and Greece's was at a whopping 64.8%. In any case, check out the chart below. [Screen Shot 2016 04 16 at 11.13.02 AM]BAML NOW WATCH: EX-UNDERCOVER DEA AGENT: What I did when drug dealers asked me to try the product
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Refugees in Greece overwhelmed by pope's visit to Lesbos
[Pope Francis blesses a man kneeling in front of him, at the Moria refugee camp, on the Greek island of Lesbos, Saturday, April 16, 2016. Pope Francis travelled Saturday to Greece for a brief but provocative visit to meet with refugees at a detention center as the European Union implements a controversial plan to deport them back to Turkey. (Filippo Monteforte/Pool Photo via AP)]MYTILENE, Greece (AP) — For some refugees, when it came time to actually meet Pope Francis, the tears just began to flow.
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The Latest: Syrian comes to Greek border to rescue family
[In this photo released by Greek Prime Minister's office on Saturday, April 16, 2016, Pope Francis, greets children at the port of Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesbos. Pope Francis implored Europe on Saturday to respond to the migrant crisis on its shores "in a way that is worthy of our common humanity," during an emotional and provocative trip to Greece. (Andrea Bonetti/Greek Prime Minister's Office via AP)]MADRID (AP) — The Latest on Europe's migration crisis (all times local):
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Reporter's Notebook: Pope Francis' Emotional Meeting With Refugees in Lesbos
The pontiff met with refugees on the Greek island.
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Pope Brings Home 12 Refugees
Pope Francis gave Europe a concrete lesson April 15 in how to treat refugees by bringing 12 Syrian Muslims to Italy from a Greek detention center.
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In Greece, Pope Francis tells migrants ‘you are not alone’
Vatican City, Apr 16, 2016 / 08:32 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis had simple message for the thousands of refugees now staying on the Greek island of Lesbos: you are not forgotten. “I have wanted to be with you today. I want to tell you that you are ...
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Lagarde Agrees with Tsakalotos on Return of Negotiators to Greece
The Chief General of the International Monetary Fund has announced the return of the institutions and creditors’ representatives to Greece, following several discussions she had with Greek Finance Minister, Euclid Tsakalots and other factors of the ...
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Pope Francis met briefly with Bernie Sanders before going to GREECE
Vatican City, Apr 16, 2016 / 04:42 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After cancelling his planned visit to a Vatican conference hosting U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders ...
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Pope Francis rescues 12 Syrian Muslim refugees, takes them from GREECE to Rome
In March, the EU struck a deal with Turkey, under which migrants and refugees reaching GREECE from Turkey will be returned. In response, the EU ...
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Pope Francis brings 12 Syrians to Vatican from Lesbos
Francis implores EU leaders to come to the aid of refugees in symbolic visit to Greek island at the centre of crisis.
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Pope Francis returns from Greece with 12 migrants
The Vatican said the pontiff wished to 'make a gesture of welcome' to refugees.
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Greek Deputy Minister of Defense Commits to Normalized Refugee Flow by Easter
“Piraeus Port will see the transfer of refugees and migrants to other areas by Easter, while at the same time the situation in Idomeni as well as in Elliniko, will begin to normalize,” said Deputy Defense Minister, Dimitris Vitsas. Appearing on Mega TV ...
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Jack Lew: Greece’ s Issue Must be Solved As Soon As Possible
US Finance Minister, Jack Lew requested from the IMF, the European Institutions and Greece, to complete the program evaluation and find a reasonable solution to the restructuring of the country’s debt, after meeting with Greek Finance Minister, Euclid ...
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Pope leaves Greece with three Syrian refugee families, calls for ‘compassion’
Pope Francis made an emotional appeal at a Greek migrant camp Saturday for the world to show “common humanity” in facing the migrant crisis, before bringing 12 Syrian refugees back with him to the Vatican.
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Greece's 'erratic Marxist' Varoufakis advises Britain's Labour Party, Corbyn says
Yanis Varoufakis, the self-described "erratic Marxist" who took Greece to the brink of a euro zone exit by battling creditors over the conditions for a bailout, has got a new role: advising Britain's opposition Labour Party. The former Greek finance ...
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Pope Francis Returns From Greece With 12 Syrian Refugees
In a “gesture of welcome”, Pope Francis returned from Greece to the Vatican with 12 Syrian refugees, including six children. The three families, all of whom are Muslim, flew with the Pope on his plane back to the Vatican. Earlier, Pope Francis visited ...
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Pope Brings Home Refugee Families from GREEK Island
Pope Francis is bringing 12 Syrian refugees back to Rome after a quick visit to the GREEK island of Lesbos. The Holy See confirmed Saturday that the ...
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Pope returns with 12 refugees after visit to GREEK camp
LESBOS, Greece Pope Francis took three families of Syrian refugees back to Rome on Saturday after visiting the frontline of Europe's migrant crisis at ...
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Greek and Turkish Cypriots pay tribute to hero-martyrs Kavazoglu and Mishiaoulis
Greek and Turkish Cypriots in London honoured the memory of Greek Cypriot Costas Mishiaoulis and Turkish Cypriot Dervis Ali Kavazoglu in an event organised by AKEL in Britain in conjunction with the Turkish Cypriot Organisation for Democracy on Monday 11th ...
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Migrant crisis: Pope returns from GREECE with 12 migrants
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who also met the pontiff, said the visit "sends a message that surpasses GREECE'S and Europe's borders".
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Pope Francis takes migrants in GREECE back to Italy; Sanders meets pope
A child kisses the hand of Pope Francis during a visit at the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, GREECE on April 16, 2016. Pope Francis ...
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Pope Francis Calls for World Action on Refugees in Visit to GREECE
Francis descended to the tarmac where he was greeted by GREECE'S Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, the Orthodox leaders and Spyros Galinos, the ...
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Pope calls for compassion for refugees, takes three families back to Italy
The 12 Syrians traveling with Francis from Lesbos, Greece, are Muslim and will be cared for at the Vatican, a spokesman said.
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Pope brings 3 Muslim refugee families back to Rome
Francis visits a refugee camp in Greece and tells the displaced 'you are not alone.'
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Greeks celebrate "open spirit" of Pope Francis
… greeted on the Greek island of Lesbos by Greek Prime Minister Alexis … and All Greece Ieronymos II, head of the Church of Greece. The … and All Greece Ieronymos II, head of the Church of Greece, will …
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Pope urges world to show 'common humanity' as he meets with refugees in Greece
… trip to Greece. He paid a visit to the Greek island of … . (Filippo Monteforte/Reuters) Francis thanked Greece for its welcome and highlighted … head of the Church of Greece. Crowd gathers Filippo Monteforte/Reuters …
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Pope Urges Europe to Treat Refugees With Dignity in Trip to Greece
The Pope is bringing 12 refugees back to Italy
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Pope Francis heads to Greek island of Lesbos
The 185-mile crossing is the most lethal of the migrant routes with one drowning per 54 successful voyages compared to one drowning for every 893 successful crossing by boat from Greece to Turkey. The number of migrants arriving in Europe through the ...
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Pope visits Greek island of Lesbos, takes 3 families back to Vatican
(CNN)Pope Francis traveled to the Greek island of Lesbos on Saturday to meet with migrants and refugees fleeing war and violence in the Middle East and North Africa -- and took 12 of them back to the Vatican aboard the papal plane, the Holy See Press ...
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Pope leaving Lesbos, Greece, with 12 refugees
MYTILENE, Greece — The Vatican has confirmed that 12 Syrian refugees, all of them Muslim, are traveling with the pope back to Italy from Greece. The three families, including six children, met with Francis on the tarmac on the island of Lesbos and ...
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Bernie Sanders had a 5-minute meeting with the pope and a well-known economist
[U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders addresses supporters at his campaign rally in Washington Square Park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, April 13, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid]Thomson Reuters VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis met U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday morning before leaving for a visit to the Greek island of Lesbos, a participant at the meeting said. Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs told Reuters that the meeting took place in the Vatican guesthouse where the pope lives and where Sanders had spent the night after addressing a Vatican conference on social justice. The Vatican said before the conference that a meeting had not been planned. Sachs said Sanders, who was accompanied by his wife, and the pope spoke for about five minutes. Sachs, his wife and a Vatican official were also in the room, Sachs said. (Reporting by Philip Pullella; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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The pope is taking 12 Syrian refugees with him on his charter plane to Italy
[Pope Francis meets migrants at the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, Saturday April 16, 2016. Pope Francis travelled Saturday to Greece for a brief but provocative visit to meet with refugees at a detention center as the European Union implements a controversial plan to deport them back to Turkey. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)]http://syndication.ap.org/AP.Distro.ContentBroker2/ContentBroker.aspx?contentid=b5f91a7661a83b13960f6a706700632d&iid=2efea346f88a43879ecaf9621f605870&rsn=0&recordid=2efea346f88a43879ecaf9621f605870&filingId=17ff7759c16d400689995725dfdfe55f&role=Preview&reldt=2016-04-16T11:00:26&media=Photo&sz=&dest=ak&trF=XLES104&ofn=APTOPIX%2bGreece%2bPope%2bMigrants.JPEG&fmt=jpg&relativeUrl=jpg/2016/201604/16/b5f91a7661a83b13960f6a706700632d.jpg&s3Key=preview.jpg&authToken=eNoti7EOwyAMBb8IZENtyIDUXwmBSB4aohDUDP74MvSGW947rU9iTwszB3rBJFCMuknKtC%2b4BjaMazQ%2bozcLw254DcABgL0r2qTMHMjr6Glrx31JHne7%2bjuPLkftU11KvezWPjpknnGWen7Tf0AClTORs2wdOhvpB2ZlLPc%3d MORIA, Greece (AP) — Pope Francis gave Europe a concrete lesson Saturday in how to treat refugees by bringing 12 Syrian Muslims to Italy aboard his charter plane after an emotional visit to the hard-hit Greek island of Lesbos. The Vatican said the three families, including six children, would be supported by the Holy See and cared for by Italy's Catholic Sant'Egidio Community. Sant'Egidio has worked out a program with the Italian government to grant deserving refugees humanitarian visas to live in Italy while their asylum applications are being processed. The Vatican said Francis wanted to make a "gesture of welcome" at the end of his five-hour visit to Lesbos, where he implored Europe to respond to the migrant crisis on its shores "in a way that is worthy of our common humanity." The Greek island just a few miles from the Turkish coast has seen hundreds of thousands of desperate people land on its shores in the last year, fleeing war and poverty at home. Francis visited Lesbos alongside the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians and the head of the Church of Greece to thank Greece for its welcome and highlight the plight of refugees as the European Union implements a controversial plan to deport them back to Turkey. At a ceremony in the port of Lesbos to thank locals, Francis said he understood Europe's concern about the migrant influx. But he said migrants are first of all human beings "who have faces, names and individual stories" and deserve to have their most basic human rights respected. "God will repay this generosity and that of other surrounding nations, who from the beginning have welcomed with great openness the large number of people forced to migrate," he said. Many refugees fell to their knees and wept at Francis' feet as he and the two Orthodox leaders approached them at the Moria refugee detention center. Others chanted "Freedom! Freedom!" as they passed by. Francis bent down as one young girl knelt at his feet sobbing uncontrollably. A woman told the pope that her husband was in Germany but that she was stuck with her two sons in Lesbos. In his remarks to them, Francis said the refugees should know that they are not alone and shouldn't lose hope. He said he wanted to visit them to hear their stories and to bring the world's attention to their plight. "We hope that the world will heed these scenes of tragic and indeed desperate need, and respond in a way worthy of our common humanity," he said. "May all our brothers and sisters on this continent, like the Good Samaritan, come to your aid in the spirit of fraternity, solidarity and respect for human dignity that has distinguished its long history." Francis, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and the archbishop of Athens, Ieronymos II, then signed a joint declaration calling on the international community to make the protection of human lives a priority and to extend temporary asylum to those in need. The declaration also called on political leaders to use all means to ensure that everyone, particularly Christians, can remain in their homelands and enjoy the "fundamental right to live in peace and security." "The world will be judged by the way it has treated you," Bartholomew told the refugees. "And we will all be accountable for the way we respond to the crisis and conflict in the regions that you come from." Francis and the two Orthodox leaders, officially divided from Catholics over a 1,000-year schism, lunched with eight of the refugees to hear their stories of fleeing war, conflict and poverty and their hopes for a better life in Europe. They then went to the island's main port to pray together and toss a floral wreath into the sea in memory of those who didn't make the journey — hundreds of people this year alone. Earlier Saturday, Francis met Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and thanked him for the "generosity" shown by the Greek people in welcoming foreigners despite their own economic troubles. Tsipras said he was proud of Greece's response "at a time when some of our partners — even in the name of Christian Europe — were erecting walls and fences to prevent defenseless people from seeking a better life." Hours before Francis arrived, the European border patrol agency Frontex intercepted a dinghy carrying 41 Syrians and Iraqis off the coast of Lesbos. The refugees were detained and brought to shore in the main port of Mytilene. The son of Italian immigrants to Argentina, Francis has made the plight of refugees, the poor and downtrodden the focus of his ministry as pope, denouncing the "globalization of indifference" that the world shows the less fortunate. The wreath-tossing ceremony is a gesture Francis first made when he visited the Italian island of Lampedusa in the summer of 2013, his first trip outside Rome as pope, after a dozen migrants died trying to reach the southern tip of Europe. He made a similar gesture more recently at the U.S.-Mexican border, laying a bouquet of flowers next to a large crucifix at the Ciudad Juarez border crossing in memory of migrants who died trying to reach the U.S. "He is slightly provocative," said George Demacopoulos, chair of Orthodox Christian studies at the Jesuit-run Fordham University in New York. Citing Francis' Mexico border visit in February, in the heat of a U.S. presidential campaign where immigration took center stage, he added: "He is within his purview to do so, but that was a provocative move." The March 18 deal between the EU and Turkey stipulates that anyone arriving clandestinely on Greek islands on or after March 20 will be returned to Turkey unless they successfully apply for asylum in Greece. For every Syrian sent back, the EU will take another Syrian directly from Turkey for resettlement in Europe. In return, Turkey was granted billions of euros to deal with the more than 2.7 million Syrian refugees living there and promised that its stalled accession talks with the EU would speed up. Human rights groups have denounced the deal as an abdication of Europe's obligation to grant protection to asylum-seekers. ___ Winfield reported from Rome and Becatoros from Athens. ___ Follow Nicole Winfield at www.twitter.com/nwinfield and Derek Gatopoulos at www.twitter.com/dgatopoulos
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Pope Francis Visits Migrants, Brings 12 Back to the Vatican
Pope Francis traveled to the front lines of the migration crisis, visiting a Greek island that has become the focal point of Europe’s hardened stance —and announcing he would return to Rome with three Syrian families.
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Pope Francis Takes 12 Refugees Back to Vatican After Trip to Greece
The pontiff visited Lesbos, the heart of Europe’s migrant crisis, asking for deeper sympathy at a moment when attitudes are hardening.
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Pope Francis Takes 12 Syrian Refugees Back From GREEK Island
Three Syrian refugee families flew to the Vatican with Pope Francis Saturday following the pontiff's brief but provocative visit to a GREEK island at the ...
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