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"There has been a wave of solidarity to match the wave of refugees," a Hungarian bishop said.

The family of four arrived in Italy Sept. 6, the day the pope made his appeal, and in accordance with Italian law and their request for asylum, family members cannot work for six months making parish support vital.

Images of them crowding into boats and walking along roadways and railways throughout Europe have poured across media channels. Soon, some of them will be headed to Phoenix.

"The Gospel calls us, asks us to be near the least and the abandoned. To give them concrete hope, not just say 'Hang in there, have patience!'" Pope Francis said in an appeal in St. Peter's Square Sept. 6.

Lebanon has seen around four times as much precipitation as the same period last year. The weather, along with the substandard living conditions, has exposed half a million refugees living in some 600 tented settlements to additional hardship.

Every child deserves a safe place, whether it's in a parent's arms or a home. Children and young adults who are refugees don't readily have such luxuries.

The memory of that brutal June evening in his home near Mosul, Iraq, brought 48-year-old Joseph, now a refugee in Lebanon, to tears.

From the head of the U.S. agency in charge of the welfare of more than 50,000 Central American children who have been apprehended at the Mexican border, to the Honduran cardinal who heads the international Catholic relief agency, Caritas, the message was clear, those minors are as much refugees as the people fleeing upheaval in Syria or South Sudan.

Jesuit Refugee Service's country director in Afghanistan — a priest from India — was kidnapped June 2 as he was leaving a school serving children who were recently returned to Afghanistan after living as refugees in Iran or Pakistan.

Fleeing conflict and violence back home, refugees from Syria and Iraq praised the Catholic humanitarian agencies helping them to cope with their trauma while starting a new life in their adopted safe haven of Jordan. Living became impossible in Ahmed's northern Syrian city of Aleppo because of constant fighting and government bombardments.