The Presidency of the Italian Catholic charity Caritas is calling for a serious reflection on policies to fight poverty and to manage migration following the approval of the "Labor Decree" in Italy.
The Tuscan branches of the Migrantes foundation and Caritas have said that they are against the building of a migrant repatriation center in the city of Florence.
The community of La Spezia, in Italy's northwest, is offering help to 237 migrants who arrived at the weekend after being rescued from the Mediterranean. Among the migrants are 87 children, some of them traveling alone.
The prefecture of the Marches city of Ancona has decided where to house the migrants who have reached the Adriatic port city on board NGO-run migrant-rescue ships Ocean Viking and Geo Barents.
The Catholic charity Caritas says they are seeing increasing numbers of migrants passing through the town of Vengimiglia on the Italian-French border.
The bishop of Ventimiglia has criticized France over the "very negative consequences" of the suspension of the Schengen Accords along the country's border with Italy, citing discrimination in border control against African and Asian refugees compared with their Ukrainian counterparts.
Poland is hosting more than 2 million Ukrainian refugees and the Polish chapter of Catholic charity Caritas is on the frontline to provide assistance with dozens of housing facilities and hundreds of volunteers, thanks to donations made by the population which have nearly reached 20 million euros.
A report presented by the Catholic charity Caritas and the Migrantes foundation on the Italian island of Sardinia has highlighted that over 51,000 foreigners live in the region. They include 5,500 who attend school out of a student population of 200,000 on the island.
The Polish branch of Catholic charity Caritas is providing assistance at the border to migrants who just crossed from Belarus, with a center offering food, clothes and blankets.
Housing facilities at the Fondazione Città della Pace in the southern towns of Sant'Arcangelo and Scanzano Jonico, in the Basilicata region, are ready to host the first families of refugees with children, the organization said on August 3. The initiative is supported by actress Sharon Stone.
The Catholic charity Caritas has launched an appeal to recover the bodies of nine victims of a shipwreck on June 30 off Lampedusa.
The Roman chapter of Catholic charity Caritas has reported "a disproportionate impact on the health of immigrants" of the Covid pandemic in Italy, denouncing a risk of "invisibility" regarding the vaccination campaign.