Tide of Migrants Pours Into Austria, Germany

[misskit]

Some 13,000 migrants had crossed from Hungary into Austria by Sunday afternoon, in the 36 hours since German and Austrian authorities bowed to pressure to accept one of the largest waves of displaced people since World War II.

“A majority of these refugees is already in Germany,” said Hans Peter Doskozil, the head of the police in Austria’s border region with Hungary. “Yesterday alone, 9,000 were transported to Germany by trains.”

At the border crossing, the flow of people had thinned on Sunday afternoon, after about 1,300 people had crossed earlier in the day. Piles of clothes, shoes, toys and food were being sorted out and prepared for the next big wave, which the Red Cross said it expected to arrive in the coming days.

The arrival of the migrants, many from war-torn countries such as Syria who are seeking refuge in Western Europe, marked a victory and abrupt change in fortunes for the bedraggled crowds after weeks on the road and emotional protests against authorities’ efforts to block them in Hungary.

In Germany, where the bulk of the migrants is traveling to, volunteers and ordinary citizens massed at train stations around the country to welcome the migrants. Recent opinion polls have shown an overwhelming willingness among the German public to help those fleeing war and persecution and broad support for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy—a position the government has repeatedly stressed was exceptional and temporary. However, isolated criticism at home and abroad suggests such support could be short-lived as the migrants continue to stream in.

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[misskit]

Pope Francis Calls On Europe’s Catholics to Shelter Refugees

ROME— Pope Francis lent his moral authority to efforts to stem a humanitarian crisis in Europe, calling on every Catholic parish there to take in one of the thousands of families coming to the region to flee conflict and poverty.

“May every parish, every religious community, every monastery, every sanctuary in Europe host a family,” the pope told a crowd in St. Peter’s Square after reciting the traditional noon Angelus prayer.

There are approximately 120,000 parishes in Europe, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. The pope added that the Vatican itself would receive two families in the next few days.

More Pope Francis Calls On Europe?s Catholics to Shelter Refugees - WSJ

[taxexile]

Send the Muslims to Muslim countries, and the Christian refugees, of which there are many many thousands, to European countries.

By allowing thousands of both Sunni and Shia refugees to settle in Europe, we are just planting the seeds for future Sunni Shia conflicts in our own countries. Now that the dictators who kept the lid on those squabbles have gone, they have royally screwed up their own lands and will soon be free to wreak their internecine, faith fuelled nonsense on Europe.

[Horatio Hornblower]

^ Thats the problem the ME countries ain't providing refuge for them.

[Pragmatic]

Tide of Migrants Pours Into Austria, Germany

They must be feeling the the same as the Poles did in 1939.

[VocalNeal]

“A majority of these refugees is already in Germany,” said Hans Peter Doskozil, the head of the police in Austria’s border region with Hungary.

And tomorrow they will all be at Calais trying to hide in trucks!

[harrybarracuda]

And among them are thousands of IS psychos just waiting to go on the rampage.

[Horatio Hornblower]

^ yep a problem they ain't got there heads around yet.

[billy the kid]

^ seen a few guys without kids trying to hide their faces when the cameras moved in.

[Horatio Hornblower]

Well I've said it before,Gaddafi warned the west and they took no notice,now its coming back to haunt Europe.