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Vatican hosts Eritrean refugee family

Woman and three children taken in by St Peter's parish

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(ANSA) - Vatican City, January 14 - The Vatican has offered hospitality to a second family of refugees, sources said Thursday.
    An Eritrean woman and three of her five children - including a two-month-old baby - have been taken in by the parish of St Peter's and given accommodation in a large apartment near the area of Via Gregorio VII near the Vatican. The family is to be joined shortly by the two remaining children, who are currently said to be in a refugee camp in Ethiopia, and by another Eritrean woman and her child.
    In September the Vatican announced that it was hosting a family of Syrian refugees from Damascus made up of a father, mother and two children.
    The announcement came shortly after Pope Francis called on all Catholic parishes across Europe to host at least one family of refugees.
   

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