Pope Francis Takes 12 Refugees Back to Vatican After Trip to Greece

[DesertRat]

MYTILENE, Greece — Pope Francis made an emotional visit into the heart of Europe’s migrant crisis on Saturday and took 12 Muslim refugees from Syria, including six children, with him back to Rome aboard the papal plane.

The action punctuated the pope’s pleas for sympathy to the crisis confronting the refugees just as European attitudes are hardening against them.

Those taken to Rome were three families — two from Damascus and one from Deir al-Zour — whose homes had been bombed in the Syrian war, the Vatican said in a statement as the pope departed the Greek island of Lesbos, where he had visited the Moria refugee camp. “The pope has desired to make a gesture of welcome regarding refugees,” the statement said.

“As people of faith, we wish to join our voices to speak out on your behalf,” Francis continued. “We hope that the world will heed these scenes of tragic and indeed desperate need, and respond in a way worthy of our common humanity.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/world/europe/pope-francis-visits-lesbos-heart-of-europes-refugee-crisis.html

[Iliyah]

1. K & R

President O did right too.

[DesertRat]

2. I just wish that some of the Catholic members of Congress

especially on the GOP side, would follow Pope Francis' example of sympathy and compassion toward refugees.

[Albertoo]

3. The Pope wrong on yet another subject

From condoms and gay rights in Africa to refugees, the Catholic Church is always wrong.
12 refugees/Vatican population of 500? That would be 12 million refugees/Europe of 500M.
Good luck with that, as the Stockholm riots or the Cologne rapes indicate.