Vatican helps nine more Syrian refugees come to Rome

A group of nine Syrian refugees, including two Christians, arrived in Rome on Thursday from the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Earlier this year, on 16 April, Pope Francis visited the camp himself to meet some of the refugees and see the conditions in which they were living. During that visit he brought three families back to Rome with him on the papal plane.

The Vatican Gendarmeria, with the help of Interior Ministry of Greece, the Greek Asylum Service, and the Community of Sant'Egidio, accompanied this new group of refugees from Athens to Rome on Thursday.

The Community of Sant'Egidio will provide for their housing, according to a statement from the Holy See Press Office.

The refugees, six adults and three children, are all Syrian citizens who had arrived on Lesbos from Turkey.

Source: Vatican Radio