The Greek government and the EU are closing down the squalid refugee camps on the islands of the Aegean, and people are being transferred to newly-built "closed controlled access centres". These prison-like facilities, which are coming into use at the same time as a the services available to refugees are being cut back, are having injurious effects upon people's mental health and wellbeing.
LESBOS, Greece Pope Francis ventured Sunday into a razor wire-fenced camp for asylum-seekers on this island in the Aegean Sea and told the people held there that Europe's response has been defensive and inhumane, and has fallen short of its purported values.
LESBOS, Greece Pope Francis ventured Sunday into a razor wire-fenced camp for asylum-seekers on this island in the Aegean Sea and told the people held there that Europe's response has been defensive and inhumane, and has fallen short of its purported values.