(ANSA) - Vatican City, September 18 - The Vatican is hosting a family of Syrian refugees from Damascus made up of a father, mother and two children, ANSA sources said Friday. The family arrived in Italy on the first Sunday of this month, the same day when Pope Francis called on all European Catholic parishes to host at least one family of refugees. They have been taken in by the parish Saint Anne in the Vatican. Italy has not yet decided whether to grant the family asylum, the sources said. The Holy See is keeping he family's identity confidential.
Also on Friday, the Almonry of the Pope said Vatican has been loaning a mobile clinic used for papal public appearances to help refugees at migrant processing centres on the outskirts of Rome. The medical volunteers staffing the mobile clinic - doctors, nurses and Swiss guards - come from Vatican City, the University of Tor Vergata and the healthcare charity organization Associazione di Istituto di Medicina Solidale.
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