On the first pastoral visit of his papacy, Pope Francis shunned protocol and politics on a visit to the tiny island of Lampedusa off the coast of Sicily to pray for refugees and migrants lost at sea.



http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/08/wo...ees/index.html

I wonder how many of these "refugees" are being housed in the Vatican City ?

There is a bit of precedent after WW2 German "refugees" en route to South America were given sanctuary