Refugee crisis - Pope’s gesture

AN understanding of the extent of the appalling refugee crisis in Southern Europe has finally reached the Vatican.

Pope Francis has called on every European parish and religious community to take in one refugee family each in a gesture of solidarity he said would start at his own front door.

During his weekly Mass in St Peter’s Square yesterday, the Pope declared: “I appeal to the parishes, the religious communities, the monasteries and sanctuaries of all Europe to take in one family of refugees.”