Pope puts up refugee family at Vatican

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015

Pope Francis is putting up a Syrian refugee family from Damascus in a Vatican apartment, aides revealed last week.

The Christian family is the first of two that the Catholic leader has promised to find space for in the Vatican’s two parishes.

This is part of a broader Church effort to help shape Europe’s response to the ongoing migration crisis partly caused by the conflict in Syria.

The family arrived in Italy on September 6, the day the Pope called on every Catholic parish across Europe to find space for at least one family of refugees.

The family is to remain anonymous until Italian authorities have ruled on their asylum request.

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