Tag: refugees
Hundreds flee to Thailand as Myanmar junta clashes with rebel group
Fighting between Karen National Union and the military broke out on Wednesday in the town of Lay Kay Kaw near the Thai border
Pope Francis urges respect for lowly
"The Lord likes best what is small and lowly. Redemption did not begin in Jerusalem, Athens or Rome but in the desert"
Pope Francis calls migrant crisis a ‘shipwreck of civilization’
“Let us not let our sea be transformed into a desolate sea of death. Let us not allow this place of encounter to become a theatre of conflict"
Pope on Cyprus visit urges European unity amid migrant influx
The pope said "the presence of many of our migrant brothers and sisters" had made Cyprus "a true point of encounter"
Bangladesh allows relocated Rohingya refugees to visit families
Nearly 20,000 members of the stateless Muslim minority have already been sent to Bhashan Char island
Pope Francis: Refugees are ending up in a ‘desert of humanity’
"All too often you come up against a desert of humanity, with an indifference that ... that dries up relations between people”
Pope Francis appeals that migrants not be sent back to unsafe...
“We need to end the return of migrants to unsafe countries and prioritize rescuing lives at sea,” said the pope
Myanmar faces ‘alarming’ risk of escalating civil war, warns UN human...
Sources in Myanmar said on Thursday that thousands of people in the country’s Chin State have already fled to India
Video: ‘Towards an ever wider WE’: Dreaming as one human family
In his new video, Pope Francis tells the faithful not to be afraid to dream - rather, to dream together as a single human family
Pope Francis welcomes ‘Little Amal’ to Vatican
The giant puppet “Little Amal” symbolizes unaccompanied refugee children