Pope greets refugees helped through Christian 'corridors'

Pope Francis blesses children as he holds an audience to refugees who arrived under humanitarian corridors programme, on March 18, 2023 at Paul-VI hall in The Vatican.

The audience included many of the 6,000 people who have been helped to Europe through "humanitarian corridors" run by Christian groups since 2016. Saturday's event comes just weeks after a migrant boat was shipwrecked off the southern coast of Italy, leaving at least 87 people dead. But the issue of who should take responsibility for the arrivals is a cause of major tension between member states.Under the corridor scheme, the European governments involved agree to issue visas, which the charities then use to bring over the most vulnerable -- whether victims of persecution, families with children, the elderly or infirm.

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