Sant’Egido - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sat, 18 Jun 2016 22:32:14 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Sant’Egido - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Vatican takes nine more Syrian refugees https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/06/21/vatican-takes-nine-syrian-refugees/ Mon, 20 Jun 2016 17:05:48 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=83811 The Vatican has brought nine more Syrian refugees to Rome. This adds to the 12 who accompanied Pope Francis when he returned from the Greek island of Lesbos in April. The nine refugees, like the twelve who preceded them, were living in a refugee camp on Lesbos. The Sant'Egidio community in Rome has agreed to Read more

Vatican takes nine more Syrian refugees... Read more]]> The Vatican has brought nine more Syrian refugees to Rome.

This adds to the 12 who accompanied Pope Francis when he returned from the Greek island of Lesbos in April.

The nine refugees, like the twelve who preceded them, were living in a refugee camp on Lesbos.

The Sant'Egidio community in Rome has agreed to provide them with food and housing, as it is doing for the original twelve.

The nine Syrian refugees who arrived in Rome on June 16 included two Christians.

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