Pope welcomes another group of
refugees from Lesbos accompanied by Card. Krajewski
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| Cardinal Krajewski with migrants in Lesbos |
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski left for Lesbos on Monday. This
new mission follows that of last May and comes after the visit of Pope Francis
to Lesbos in 2016. The Apostolic Almoner will return next Wednesday with a
group of 33 refugees. Another 10 will arrive by the end of the year. Assistance
for all of them will be provided by the Holy See and the Sant'Egidio Community.
By Giada Aquilino- Vatican City
On the express "wish" of Pope Francis and thanks
to a new "humanitarian corridor", next Wednesday "33 refugees
seeking political asylum" will arrive in Italy from Lesbos, Greece. The
Apostolic Almoner, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, left on Monday for the island in
the Aegean Sea, from where he will return on 4 December accompanying these
migrants. Alongside the cardinal were some leaders from the Sant'Egidio
Community. By the end of the year this group will be joined by "another 10
refugees". The news was contained in a communiqué from the office of
the Apostolic Almoner.
The Pope's visit
The mission follows that which the cardinal himself, as
envoy of the Pope, carried out in Lesbos last spring. It also follows the visit
of the Pope who personally met with migrants from the Moria refugee camp on 16
April 2016. He then returned to Italy with 3 families of Syrian asylum seekers,
whose reception and sustenance was taken care of by the Holy See, while the
hospitality and the path of integration was provided by the Sant'Egidio
Community.
Another gesture of solidarity
By sending the Papal Almoner among the island's migrants in
May, Pope Francis wanted to renew his closeness to the Greek people and
refugees and at the same time expressed his desire to make a "further
gesture of solidarity", hosting "a group of young refugees and some
families" from Afghanistan, Cameroon and Togo. After an "intense
itinerary of official negotiations" between the relevant bodies, the
Italian Ministry of the Interior gave "its definitive consent" to
carry out the operation. The reception of all these refugees will also be
"at the expense" of the Holy See, through the office of the Apostolic
Almoner, and of the Sant'Egidio Community.
Two families in Luxembourg
On 19 November the archdiocese of Luxembourg, led by new
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, who in May had participated in the mission of
Cardinal Krajewski to Lesbos, also opened its doors to two families of refugees
from the same camps on the Greek island, one originally from Kuwait with two
children aged 8 and 5 and one from Syria with twins aged almost two years.
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