(Vatican Radio) The initial sympathy with which the Greeks viewed the migrants is evaporating fast, as citizens’ groups near Idomeni at the Greece-Macedonia border claim migrants have broken into their homes and could be carrying disease.Listen to John Carr's report: Their complaints are putting pressure on the Greek government to relocate the 13,000 migrants amassed in tents on the border, by force if necessary. Some migrants, in desperation, are blocking the rail line at Idomeni, demanding that the Macedonian border reopen. While such a development is highly unlikely, the line closure has crippled local businesses.Unrest is mounting at the port of Piraeus where 5,000 migrants stubbornly resist being bused to more comfortable holding camps. The camp on the island of Chios is overflowing, with its occupants demanding to be allowed to travel to mainland Greece. That camp and others are swelled by new arrivals daily, as the recent EU-Turkey migrant ...
(Vatican Radio) The initial sympathy with which the Greeks viewed the migrants is evaporating fast, as citizens’ groups near Idomeni at the Greece-Macedonia border claim migrants have broken into their homes and could be carrying disease.
Listen to John Carr's report:
Their complaints are putting pressure on the Greek government to relocate the 13,000 migrants amassed in tents on the border, by force if necessary. Some migrants, in desperation, are blocking the rail line at Idomeni, demanding that the Macedonian border reopen. While such a development is highly unlikely, the line closure has crippled local businesses.
Unrest is mounting at the port of Piraeus where 5,000 migrants stubbornly resist being bused to more comfortable holding camps. The camp on the island of Chios is overflowing, with its occupants demanding to be allowed to travel to mainland Greece. That camp and others are swelled by new arrivals daily, as the recent EU-Turkey migrant restriction deal proves unenforceable.
The government here in Athens claims the migrant tents at Piraeus will be cleared by the end of this month. How it will be done is not clear. But officials fear that with Orthodox Easter a month away, the sight of the amassed migrants might upset those people who want to travel to the islands for the holiday.
Pope Francis prays during his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on April 24, 2024. / Credit: Vatican MediaACI Prensa Staff, Apr 25, 2024 / 16:10 pm (CNA).Asked during a new interview if he has any message for Vladimir Putin, the Russian president who instigated the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis stated that "a negotiated peace is better than an endless war."CBS News broadcast some excerpts April 24 from a new interview conducted by journalist Norah O'Donnell with Pope Francis at St. Martha House, the pontiff's residence in the Vatican.During the exchange, the full version of which will be released on May 19, the Holy Father reflected on world conflicts and especially on the suffering of children during wars.O'Donnell asked the Holy Father if he had any message for Vladimir Putin regarding Ukraine, to which the pontiff replied: "Please, countries at war, all of them... Stop the war. Seek to negotiate. Seek peace. A negotiated peace is better than an e...
An aerial view of Washington Square in San Francisco on May 22, 2020. / Credit: JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty ImagesCNA Staff, Apr 25, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA).San Francisco police arrested a homeless man last Sunday for allegedly stabbing a parent from a nearby Catholic school after an altercation involving the two outside a historic Catholic church in the city. Twenty-five-year-old Marko Asaulyuk of San Francisco was charged with attempted murder and eight counts of assault with a deadly weapon.The Catholic school father, who was released from the hospital Sunday, only suffered a minor injury to his leg, Father Tho Bui, pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul Church, told CNA Thursday in an email.San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone was conferring the sacrament of confirmation on the parish school's students and students from a nearby parish during a noon Mass when a "disruptive man" entered the church, as Bui described him.The man was walking up and down the main aisle of the ...
The pro-life flag from the Pro-Life Flag Project (www.prolifeflag.com). / Credit: Pro-Life Flag Project (www.prolifeflag.com)Toronto, Canada, Apr 25, 2024 / 12:50 pm (CNA).The International Pro-Life Flag will not fly over Toronto Catholic schools this May.Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) trustees voted against an April 23 motion proposed by trustee Michael Del Grande that the pro-life flag fly outside all schools and the Catholic Education Centre during the month of May, just as the board voted to fly the Pride flag in June.Del Grande's motion was defeated at the April 23 board meeting when only Garry Tanuan supported Del Grande's motion. The eight other board members in attendance and the two student trustees opposed his proposal.Though Del Grande could not muster enough backing from his colleagues, his plan, which would have also directed all TCDSB schools to teach an exclusively pro-life curriculum on May 9, the day of the National March for Life, garnered bois...