Cardinal Nichols urges Britain to be more generous to desperate refugees

Britain's reaction to the migrant crisis must be more "generous", Cardinal Vincent Nichols has told ITV News.

Speaking after images of a dead Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach emerged, Cardinal Nichols said the British public had told him it was "a disgrace that we were letting people die and seeing bodies on the beaches when together Europe is such a wealthy place".

"If we take 10,000, it's a fraction of the problem," he told Chris Ship.

He said: "People are beginning to see the human face of this suffering, so it's no longer an abstract problem of people who are on the scrounge, it's not.

"It's people who are desperate for the sake of their families, their elderly, their youngsters, their children, and the more we see that the more the opportunity for a political response that's a bit more generous is growing."

"What is screaming out is the human tragedy of this problem."

Watch the full interview here: www.itv.com/news/2015-09-02/cardinal-people-tell-me-it-is-a-disgrace-that-we-are-letting-people-die/

See earlier report: ICN 2 September 2015 Petition: Let's welcome refugees into out homes www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=28207