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Sunday, April 17, 2016
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Sunday, April 17, 2016
Syrian refugees taken in by pope: He gave us a new life
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Syrian refugees taken in by Pope Francis following his visit to Lesbos yesterday hail the pontiff as a “savior” for offering them a new life.
Talking to Italian daily La Stampa after their first night in Rome at a Catholic charity, the families express their gratitude to the pontiff for his “gesture of hope.”
“We saw friends and relatives die in the rubble, we fled Syria because we no longer had any hope,” says Hasan, an engineer from Damascus, who is in Italy with his wife Nour and two-year-old son.
— AFP
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