Ukraine: CEI, EU implements refugee redistribution plan

(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 21 - A redistribution plan for refugees arriving from Ukraine is needed.

I emphasize the CEI.

"The number of displaced people is a fact that is destined to increase" and "one cannot think that the border countries can support this humanitarian commitment alone: ​​the European Union will need to decide to implement a real and proper plan for the redistribution of Ukrainian citizens in the various member states ", said Cardinal President GualtieroBassetti.

"In the next few hours, some humanitarian flights from Warsaw will arrive in Italy, allowing hundreds of Ukrainian citizens to be welcomed by about 20 Caritasdiocesan dioceses in our country," said Bassetti, confirming the news spread in recent days.

About six hundred refugees should arrive in Italy with humanitarian flights.

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Our Churches are and will make their partnership in welcoming and opening corridors to facilitate the safe arrival of people who are stuck in transit countries, who are no longer able to continue their journey or are too vulnerable to do so.

This too is a valuable contribution to peace ", Bassetti underlined announcing: Friday 25 March, the Feast of the Annunciation," we will join with bishops and priests from all over the world to Pope Francis who will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary " .

    Bassetti, opening the work of the permanent Episcopal Council, also spoke about the end of life.

"The sentence and the reasons with which the Constitutional Court rejected the referendum question on the murder of the consenting party are to be welcomed with relief, while it is to be hoped that during the parliamentary procedure the bill on the end of life will recognize the principle of minimum constitutionally necessary protection of human life, in general, and with particular reference to the weak and vulnerable ".

    Finally, speaking of the situation in the country, Bassetti concluded: "We must avoid the temptation to exploit the discomfort for ideological interests and instead work to mend and pacify the fabric of human and civil relations, with special attention to the smallest and most fragile".

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