Migrant Crisis: US to Accept at Least 10,000 Syrian Refugees; EU Debates How to Deal with Growing Numbers

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This week European nations continued grappling with the massive influx of migrants fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries. In Greece, a ship packed with more than 2,000 migrants, many of them Syrians, docked at a port near Athens. In Munich, thousands of refugees arrived by train. Germany expects to take in an estimated 800,000 migrants over the next year. As EU nations debated how to deal with the growing numbers, thousands rallied in Paris and Australia to show their support for migrants and to urge their governments to assist them. President Obama said the US will accept at least 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next fiscal year. At the Vatican, Pope Francis called on every Catholic parish across Europe to take in at least one migrant family. He said Catholics were called to be “neighbors of the smallest and most abandoned.”

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