AThirty-six civil society organizations have sent a letter to Pope Francis regarding the refugee situation in view of his upcoming visit to Greece.
In a letter released at an online press conference on Thursday, December 2, the NGOs asked, among other things, to meet with the leader of the Roman Catholic Church and inform him about the living conditions of refugees in Greece, as well as the need to support refugees quest for access to asylum with a message of solidarity towards our persecuted fellow humans.
Attached is the letter to Pope Francis
Signatories:
1. A Drop in the Ocean
2. Actionaid Hellas
3. ARSIS – Association for the Social Support of Youth
4. Βabel Day Center
5. Caritas Hellas
6. Centre Diotima
7. Changemakers Lab
8. Community Pope John XXIII
9. Danish Refugee Council (DRC)
10. ECHO100PLUS
11. ELIX
12. Equal Rights Beyond Borders
13. Europe Must Act
14. Fenix – Humanitarian Legal Aid
15. Greek Council for Refugees (GCR)
16. Greek Forum of Migrants
17. Greek Forum of Refugees
18. Hellenic League for Human Rights
19. HIAS Greece
20. Humanrights360
21. INTERSOS
22. INTERSOS Hellas
23. Irida Women’s Center
24. Jesuit Refugee Service Greece (JRS Greece)
25. Lesvos Solidarity
26. Médecins du Monde – Greece
27. Network for Children’s Rights
28. Mobile Info Team (MIT)
29. Odyssea
30. Refugee Legal Support
31. Refugee Support Aegean (RSA)
32. Samos Advocacy Collective
33. Samos Volunteers
34. SolidarityNow
35. Still I Rise
36. Symbiosis-School of Political Studies in Greece, Council of Europe
