Nearly a decade after Pope Francis plucked them from a refugee camp in Greece, a Syrian couple and their child have carved ...

Rockland Public Library will present Marie Ilvonen to speak on “Seeking Safety: The Ongoing Crisis on Lesvos, Greece” at 2 ...

The protests have been falsely depicted as anti-migrant as part of a coordinated disinformation campaign. #EuroVerify ...

Greece has been deeply alarmed over the renewed violence that broke out in Syria last week, in which over 1,000 people are ...

But there is a framed photo of little Riad meeting Pope Francis, who brought them and two other Muslim families back with him to Italy from refugee camps in the Greek island of Lesbos almost a ...

Olsen first traveled to Lesbos, Greece — an island some 175 miles north of Kos — in 2015, when the refugee boats had begun to arrive en masse, sometimes more than 1, 000 people arriving on the ...

Hundreds of thousands of Greeks took part in nationwide protests on February 28, 2025 to mark the second anniversary of the ...

Though they have no photos from their homeland, they keep a framed photo of their young son, Riad, meeting Pope Francis in ...

B.C. has become home for 18-year-old Hanna Ushkanova. She fled war in Ukraine three years ago and was living in a refugee camp in Greece when she was connected with a Chilliwack family, who took her ...