“Italy offers Europe to receive those in need of humanitarian protection on a larger scale in order to receive and integrate them”
C. Rubini CTC, Vatican News
Marco Impagliazzo, President of the community of Sant’Egidio, welcomed the 152 Afghan refugees who arrived this morning from Pakistan through the humanitarian corridors thanks to the code of conduct of the Italian government and the cooperation of the Italian Embassy in Islamabad, saying that Italy should lead the humanitarian corridors in Europe and should no longer be offered to the European Union as an experimental project but as a concrete one.
Giuseppe Bathuri, Secretary General of the Committee of Italian Bishops, Libero Ciuffreda, member of the FCEI Council, and Filippo Mirallia, National Immigration Manager of the RC, were also present to receive the refugees.
Impagliso told them that they were not forgotten in August 2021, when Afghanistan’s borders were closed, recalling the promise they made that they would not be forgotten, and that they were happy to welcome them today by preparing a home on for them, and to help them build a common future here in Italy.
Afghan nationals who have been refugees in Pakistan for more than a year will be received by institutions, monasteries, communities and individual citizens in different Italian regions. The goal is to send minors to schools, teach Italian to others, and then work on refugee permits.
More than 5,300 refugees have arrived in Europe, of which more than 1,800 are Ukrainian citizens. They are welcomed by the Sant’Egidio community in various European countries. More people from Lebanon and Libya are expected to arrive in Rome in the coming days.
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