VATICAN CITY – After the three families of Syrian Muslims, 12 people, brought with them on the plane returning from their visit to Lesbos in April three years ago, now the Pope is bringing another 43 from Italy to the Greek island refugees of various nationalities, who as in the other case will be welcomed by the Holy See together with the Community of Sant'Egidio. Today Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the Pope's almsgiver, returned to the island with some leaders of the Community of Sant'Egidio, and will return to Rome next Wednesday, 4 December, with a group of 33 migrants. By the end of December another 10 refugees will be accompanied to Italy, thus initiating the procedures necessary for the request for international protection.Special Migrants
Three years after the Pope's visit to Lesbos and his decision to bring back Syrian families, last May the pontiff asked Krajewski to return to the Greek island to renew solidarity with the Greek people and refugees and, also in On this occasion, he expressed the desire to make a further gesture of solidarity and host a group of young refugees and some families from Afghanistan, Cameroon and Togo. "After an intense period of official negotiations between the competent bodies in order to carry out this new humanitarian corridor, the Italian Ministry of the Interior gave final approval to carry out the operation", explains a note from the Almosineria. The reception of the 43 arriving refugees will be, again in this case, at the expense of the Holy See, through the Apostolic Alms, and of Sant'Egidio. The reception to 33 refugees of different nationalities, as well as that foreseen for another 10 in the coming days, in agreement with the Ministry of the Interior, "aims to offer a future to those who live – many for a long time now – in the fields refugees on the Greek island ". After the visit last May with the Apostolic Alms, Sant'Egidio had organized in the summer (between July and August) a presence of volunteers in Lesvos and in Samos to demonstrate, through various initiatives, its solidarity with the refugees present in the two islands .
Three years after the Pope's visit to Lesbos and his decision to bring back Syrian families, last May the pontiff asked Krajewski to return to the Greek island to renew solidarity with the Greek people and refugees and, also in On this occasion, he expressed the desire to make a further gesture of solidarity and host a group of young refugees and some families from Afghanistan, Cameroon and Togo. "After an intense period of official negotiations between the competent bodies in order to carry out this new humanitarian corridor, the Italian Ministry of the Interior gave final approval to carry out the operation", explains a note from the Almosineria. The reception of the 43 arriving refugees will be, again in this case, at the expense of the Holy See, through the Apostolic Alms, and of Sant'Egidio. The reception to 33 refugees of different nationalities, as well as that foreseen for another 10 in the coming days, in agreement with the Ministry of the Interior, "aims to offer a future to those who live – many for a long time now – in the fields refugees on the Greek island ". After the visit last May with the Apostolic Alms, Sant'Egidio had organized in the summer (between July and August) a presence of volunteers in Lesvos and in Samos to demonstrate, through various initiatives, its solidarity with the refugees present in the two islands .
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