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Pope Francis reneges on offer to take in Christian refugees
[NYPOST] A Christian brother and sister from Syria felt blessed to have been among the dozen refugees selected to start a new life in Italia -- but now say their savior, Pope Francis, abandoned them on a Greek island, according to a report.Roula and Malek Abo, who had been housed in a refugee camp on Lesbos, said they thanked their lucky stars when they found out the Vatican had selected them during the pontiff’s visit to the island last week, the Daily Mail reported. Their dreams were shattered, though, when they were informed the following day that they would not be traveling to Rome. Instead, three Muslim families were taken. Asked why they were all Muslim, Francis said there was something wrong with the papers of a Christian family on the list. The siblings arrived in Greece on April 1 -- 10 days after a controversial European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... deal called for asylum-seekers in Greece to be returned to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Their hopes to avoid deportation now hinge on their applications for asylum. "If they can do this for 12 people, they can do it for more," Roula, 22, told the paper. "If you have promised to take people back to Italia, will something like registration papers stand in your way?" Community Sant’Egidio, the charity that organized the trip, and the Vatican would not explain the process involved in choosing the "The problem here is the three Syrians arrived after the March 20 deadline. They arrived just after the agreement between the European Union and Turkey," front man Massimiliano Signifredi told the Daily Mail. "Our staff went to Lesbos and spoke with the people who were selected. But everything was decided by the Vatican," he said. "The question why the pope took only Muslims is difficult to understand and he was suffering, I think, because he wanted to do something also for Christians as the chief of the Catholic Church. But he couldn’t because there is this international agreement [with the EU]," he said. The Vatican declined comment. Posted by: Fred 2016-04-24 |
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