Tomorrow, June 16, 2016, 81 more mostly Syrian refugees will arrive to Fiumicino Airport from Beirut thanks to the ‘humanitarian corridors’ project. They add themselves to the 200 already arrived in Italy since last February. At this point, the project is no longer an experiment, but a concrete reality that allows a person who is […]
[slideshow_deploy id=’1715′] They arrived yesterday morning from all of Italy; from parishes, Christian communities of various denominations of Potenza, Terni, Frosinone, Torino, Novara… They reached the airport to welcome the refugees from Syria and Iraq arriving in Rome through the humanitarian corridors and to accompany them to their homes, where their new lives will begin. […]
The plane landed at Fiumicino Airport at 7 o’clock this morning, with the families of Syrian refugees on board that, thanks to the humanitarian corridors, had crossed the Mediterranium safely. They come from Homs, Aleppo, Hama and Hassaka, near the Iraqi border, not far from Mosul. Among them a family that fled from Iraq. This […]
Coming back from the Greek island of Lesbos, Pope Francis has taken on his plane three families of refugees from Syria fleeing form war. They are 12 people- 6 of them are children – who will be hosted in Vatican. They come from bombed cities, had lost everything and are in a very precarious condition. […]
The founder of Sant’Egidio said on Famiglia Cristiana: “we must convene an ecumenical council of European Christians. The Churches can not remain prisoners of institutional logics or politics of their countries. No to walls; welcoming is a duty” The founder of the Sant’Egidio Community, Andrea Riccardi – underlining the urgent message that we must welcome those who […]