Pope Francis has urged all Catholic institutions in Europe to show mercy to the flood of refugees arriving on their shores by offering them shelter, CNN reports.
“May every parish, every religious community, every monastery, every sanctuary of Europe host a family, starting from my diocese of Rome,” Francis said at the end of his Angelus prayers in Rome on Sunday, September 6, 2015
“The two parishes in the Vatican these days will welcome two families of refugees.”





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