Unwelcome Refugees

* Pope has now chosen more than half of Church's cardinal electors * Cardinals are pope's close advisers in Rome and around the world * Around half of all cardinal electors come from developing world By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Pope…

Athens, Greece - Greece, Germany and the European Commission have called on Turkey to fully implement its migration agreement with the European Union by speeding up the return of asylum seekers that crossed onto the bloc's territory from Turkish soil. "The E…

After World War II, when Jewish refugees arriving in the US were sent back to Europe, where many died in Nazi concentration camps, Americans declared, "Never again." With US President Donald Trump's Migration Protection Protocols, never has arrived.LOS ANGELE…

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece’s prime minister accused Turkey on Friday of appearing to “exploit” Europe’s migrant crisis for its own ends and said Ankara can and must control migrant flows to the continent. Greece, the route into Europe for nearly a million re…

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said after meeting with his Turkish counterpart that Turkey faced “enormous” migratory pressure, which has increased with new arrivals from Afghanistan and Syria. (Deutsche Welle) Top German and EU officials travelled …

Writer Pat Conroy grew up in a home with a violent father. Luckily for him, he had a mother who provided the counter-weight to the hatred spewed by his racist and brutal father. When Conroy was a boy, his mother read aloud to him. One of the books was The Di…

Richard Warnica is a feature writer for the National Post in Toronto. LONDON, Ontario On a hot day in early September, Maxime Bernier stood in line at a Booster Juice waiting for a smoothie. Bernier, who is 56 years old, looks tall in person. He has graying …

In September 1933 — a few months after exiling himself forever from his German home in Berlin where he had lived since 1914 — Albert Einstein found himself unexpectedly dwelling alone in a thatched wooden holiday hut located in a wild rural area of Norfolk in…

A Brussels church has celebrated the International Day of the Migrant and the Refugee and reflected on its thirty years of helping new arrivals to Europe. The parish of Riches Claires has a dedicated committee for refugees that has been operating for thirty …

Migration has become a flash point around the world in recent years, as millions of people have been displaced by wars in Syria and Afghanistan and economic deprivation in Africa, many seeking a better future in Europe. Immigration has spurred a bitter backl…