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by bcadmin | Oct 3, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, immigrants and refugees, Italy, Lampedusa, Mediterranean, migrant crisis, News | 0 |
Survivors of a 2013 capsizing, one of the Mediterranean’s more deadly migrant tragedies, on Sunday joined residents of a tiny Italian isle in an anniversary ceremony to honor the 368 people who died.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 1, 2020 | Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, Lampedusa, lead, migrants and refugees, News | 0 |
Protests have broken out on the Italian island of Lampedusa over a wave of new migrant arrivals in a city that is already well beyond it capacity to host them.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 30, 2020 | Associated Press, Asylum seekers, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Italy, Lampedusa, Mediterranean, migrants and refugees, News, Sicily | 0 |
The arrival of hundreds of migrants crammed into a rickety fishing boat has worsened the severe overcrowding at shelters on a tiny Italian island, triggering an angry demonstration by islanders and a vow Sunday by the mayor to call a protest strike.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 9, 2020 | Africa, Asylum seekers, Lampedusa, lead, Libya, Migrants, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Refugees, Syria | 0 |
Pope Francis’s 2013 trip to Lampedusa was just four and a half hours long, but rarely has a mere half-day in the life of a papacy been so replete with both symbolism and substance.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 8, 2020 | Casa Santa Marta, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Daily Mass, Domus Sanctae Marthae, Lampedusa, migrants and refugees, News, Pope Francis, second, Vatican | 0 |
Decrying the unimaginable “hell” migrants experience in detention centers, Pope Francis urged all Christians to examine how they do or don’t help — as Jesus commanded — the people God has placed in their path.
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