Italy's National Guarantor for the Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty expressed "perplexity and concern" over the transfer of migrants to a quarantine ship after they tested positive for the coronavirus. They had previously been hosted for some time at migrant reception centers.
Two refugees who enrolled as students at the University of Florence through a project by the UN refugee agency UNHCR called "University Corridors for Refugees" (UNICORE) will be will provided with scholarships.
The Christian Associations of Italian Workers (ACLI) have welcomed recent changes to Italy's migrant and security decrees but have demanded a reform of citizenship rights.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Wednesday posthumously awarded the gold medal for civil merit to Roberto Malgesini. The priest was known for helping migrants and homeless people. He was stabbed to death in front of his home last month.
The Italian region of Tuscany has issued an ordinance that calls for most of the migrants staying at church buildings in Pistoia to be relocated to other facilities. The goal: To reduce overcrowding and thus reduce the risk of a coronavirus outbreak.
Gospel Ozioma Nnadi is a young refugee who fled Nigeria and passed through Libya before achieving a happy ending with a degree in computer science from the University of Parma.
There were 239 migrants and refugees in the Italian reception system who tested positive for the novel coronavirus between February 1 and June 12. Almost all of them were living in centers in northern Italy.
The Catholic Community of Sant’Egidio has announced it would help airlift a contingent of 300 migrants from Lesbos in collaboration with the Italian government.
Kikeme Blessing arrived in Italy in 2017 and is now living with an Italian couple in the southern town of Restinco thanks to Refugees Welcome Italia, an organization that finds private accommodation for refugees.
Alex Assali came to Germany in October 2014 from Syria, fleeing war, political persecution and IS. He obtained refugee status and wanted to give something back to Germany, so he started a soup kitchen for homeless people in Berlin. His actions went viral and now he has found love and marriage in Germany too.
After nine migrants fled an asylum center in northwestern Italy, local politicians are calling on the Rome government to take "immediate measures to put an end to an emergency situation." They claim the migrants pose a "risk for public health and safety."
The Tuscan chapter of Italian labor union UIL has denounced that "no procedure to control all workers" was launched at a CAS reception center for asylum seekers after a coronavirus outbreak was reported there.