Italy welcomes 178 Afghan refugees from Pakistan, Iran

Two groups of Afghan refugees have arrived in Italy through humanitarian corridors recently: A group of 152 Afghan refugees from Pakistan arrived in Italy through a humanitarian corridor last week.

Another 26 Afghan refugees landed in Rome on Tuesday (November 29) from Tehran. They arrived via a humanitarian corridor organized by Fcei — the Italian federation of protestant churches.

“All of Italy celebrates your arrival and welcomes you and wishes to give a future, through schooling and work to families who seemed to have lost this chance due to war,” Impagliazzo told the refugees.

The leader of Sant’Egidio also called for the humanitarian corridor model to be adapted across Europe. “Italy should lead the way in Europe for humanitarian corridors, a project that … has become a well-established practice, that should be proposed to the entire European Union as a model of hospitality and integration, for those in need of humanitarian protection,” he said.

The newly arrived refugees were taken in by associations, religious congregations, communities and private citizens across different regions in Italy.