1,000 refugees reach Italy through “Humanitarian Corridors”

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[WCC] The first of what will be 1,000 refugees from camps in Lebanon, Morocco and Ethiopia are arriving this month in Italy through a “Humanitarian Corridors” project organized by the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI), the Sant’Egidio religious community and the Italian government.

Italian churches have committed to provide housing, cultural orientation and language lessons for the refugees during their first months in Italy.

Last week, a Syrian family travelled to Italy from Lebanon through the first such “safe corridor” opened by a formal protocol signed by the Protestant Federation, the Community of Sant’Egidio and the government ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Interior. The four-person family included a seriously ill seven-year-old girl who is now being treated at the Bambin Gesù Hospital in Rome.

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