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October 6, 2016

World has a duty to protect refugees, Vatican representative says

Displaced Iraqi women wait for their tent to be built June 21 at a refugee camp in Fallujah. Vatican observer to U.N. agencies in Geneva, Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, says the world has a duty to protect refugees.

VATICAN CITY – While national concerns about an influx of migrants and refugees may be legitimate, no country should lose sight of the fact that the influx is made up of real people whose lives are in danger, a Vatican official told a U.N. meeting.

Published in International