Pope Francis urges European churches to open doors to refugees

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Pope Francis implored Catholic institutions throughout Europe to show mercy to the flood of refugees arriving on their shores by offering them shelter.

"May every parish, every religious community, every monastery, every sanctuary of Europe host a family, starting from my diocese of Rome," Francis said at the end of his Angelus prayers in Rome on Sunday.

"The two parishes in the Vatican these days will welcome two families of refugees."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/06/europe/europe-migrant-crisis/

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1. There are over 11,000 paishes in Germany alone.