Family first: Pope says migration policy changes when newcomers seen as kin
With passion in Cyprus and reason in Greece, Pope Francis continued to articulate and adjust his teaching on migration.
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by bcadmin | Dec 7, 2021 | Cardinal Michael Czerny, Catholic News Service, Cyprus, Greece, immigrants and refugees, Lesbos, News, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus, Vatican | 0 |
With passion in Cyprus and reason in Greece, Pope Francis continued to articulate and adjust his teaching on migration.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 6, 2021 | Catholic news, Europe, Lesbos, Migrants, migrants and refugees, Migration, News, Pope Francis, Pope Francis in Greece, Pope Francis visit to Cyprus and Greece 2021, Refugee, Vatican | 0 |
From a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, Pope Francis decried European indifference to the plight of migrants in the Mediterranean as a “shipwreck of civilization.” “The Mediterranean, which for millennia has brought different peoples and distant lands together, is now becoming a grim cemetery without tombstones. This great basin of water, the
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 6, 2021 | Church in Europe, Greece, lead, Lesbos, migrants and refugees, News, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus | 0 |
Migrants living on the Greek island of Lesbos hope the visit of Pope Francis Sunday will inspire a change in the country’s strict asylum process.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 5, 2021 | Greece, lead, Lesbos, migrant crisis, News, Patriarch Bartholomew, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus | 0 |
Sunday’s stop on Lesbos marks Francis’s second visit to the island, having traveled there in 2016 to shed light on the migration crisis and pray alongside Orthodox leaders for migrants and refugees who die in an attempt to reach Europe.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 5, 2021 | Christian refugees, Greece, Lesbos, News, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus | 0 |
LESBOS – Christian migrants and refugees living in the main reception camp on the Greek island of Lesbos have written Pope Francis a letter ahead of his visit to the facility today, sharing their woes and asking him to intercede with authorities on their behalf. The letter, titled, “Cries of […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 4, 2021 | Church in Europe, Greece, immigrants and refugees, lead, Lesbos, News, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus | 0 |
For migrants who live on Lesbos, Pope Francis’s visit Sunday will be a much-awaited opportunity not only for them to share their stories, but to shed a spotlight on an ongoing migration crisis.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 1, 2021 | Church in Europe, Cyprus, Ecumenism, Greece, lead, Lesbos, migrants and refugees, Migration, News, Papal travel, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus | 0 |
Pope Francis’s agenda on migrants will be one of the major talking points during this week’s visit to Greece and Cyprus, both of which have are places where the pope’s message of welcome has had mixed reviews.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 30, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Cyprus, Greece, lead, Lesbos, migrants and refugees, News, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus | 0 |
When Pope Francis visited the Greek island of Lesbos in 2016, he was so moved by the stories he heard from families fleeing war in Iraq and Syria that he wept and brought a dozen refugees home with him.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 5, 2021 | Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Christian-Muslim dialogue, Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean, Greece, Italy, Lesbos, Malta, Migration, News, Pope Francis, Promoting peace, Spain, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Pope Francis’ planned trip to the eastern Mediterranean in December will focus on migration, Catholic-Orthodox relations and promoting peace in a region known more for its vacation spots than its ongoing political tensions.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 19, 2020 | Archbishop Sevastianos Rossolatos, Caritas, Church in Europe, community of sant'egidio, Greece, immigrants and refugees, Lesbos, News, Turkey | 0 |
To be able to continue helping migrants and refugees in Greece, a local archbishop said, the Catholic Church needs more funds.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 25, 2020 | Asylum seekers, Cardinal Jean-Claude Höllerich, Caritas, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, COMECE, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Jesuit Refugee Service, Lesbos, migrants and refugees, News | 0 |
Catholic aid agencies have urged the evacuation of Syrian war refugees from camps in Greece to “avert a catastrophe” from the coronavirus. “More than 42,000 people are trapped in hopelessly overcrowded camps and horrific conditions — there is no hope of containing any outbreak,” Caritas Europe, Jesuit Refugees Service and
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 24, 2020 | Cardinal Jean-Claude Höllerich, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, Cardinal Michael Czerny, Church in Europe, COMECE, European union, Greece, Humanitarian corridor, lead, Lesbos, migrants and refugees, News | 0 |
Some of Pope Francis’s closest advisors have called on EU bishops’ conferences to help facilitate the transfer of 20,000 refugees from Lesbos, Greece, to other European countries.
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