Lesbos

Greek officials said four people died and 18 were rescued after a boat carrying migrants sank off the cost of the island of Lesbos.

Pope Francis launched an appeal for migrants Sunday, insisting that when we think of migrants we should think of their suffering.

Pope Francis will once again shuttle migrants back to Italy after his upcoming visit to Cyprus, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.

On Saturday, a Greek court sentenced four Afghan asylum seekers to ten years in prison for their role in burning down Europe’s largest migrant camp on the island of Lesbos that left at least 13,000 homeless.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has told European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Migration Ylva Johansson that Turkey no longer accepts rejected migrants and uses them as a foreign policy tool.

Two teen Afghan asylum seekers have been convicted and sentenced to five years in prison for their role in the arson that saw the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos burn to the ground.

A three-year-old girl was found passed out in the mud of the Kara Tepe migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, with doctors claiming the young child had been raped.

A total of 35 people, 33 of them workers from four separate Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), have been implicated by Greek police in helping to smuggle illegal migrants to the Aegean island of Lesbos. The 33 NGO workers are said to

A majority of Germans have expressed concern that the German government taking in large numbers of migrants from Greece after the Moria migrant camp fire could trigger a new wave of migration.

The progressive leader of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) has called on Europeans to open their doors to migrants stranded in camps in Libya, Lesbos, and Lampedusa.

Residents on the island of Lesbos have set up roadblocks to prevent the rebuilding of the notorious Moria migrant camp that burned to the ground earlier this week.

At least 13,000 asylum seekers are without housing after a massive fire gutted the notorious Moria migrant camp on the island of Lesbos, with some accusing migrants of setting the blaze.

A 19-year-old migrant from the Ivory Coast has died after being stabbed to death by an Afghan asylum seeker in the notorious Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.

A Greek resident of the island of Lesbos has filed a complaint after discovering illegal migrants had built a makeshift mosque on her property that is located near a notorious migrant camp.

Greece has released footage which they claim shows Turkish coastguard vessels escorting illegal migrant boats as they make their way toward Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.

The Hungarian government is donating $30,000 for the repair of Christian churches vandalized by migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos.

Two asylum seekers were shot after they violated quarantine measures put in place to stop the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus. 

Migrant reception centres on several Greek islands have been put under a two-week lockdown this week in order to mitigate the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.

Violent incidents, mostly directed at pro-migration NGOs, have escalated on the Greek island of Lesbos in recent days as Turkey refuses to close the gates to Europe.

Several pro-migration NGOs will be suspending their activities on the Greek island of Lesbos after attacks from locals they have deemed to be far-right extremists.

Protest groups begun setting up blockades Monday aimed at stopping the government from building new migrant detention centers.

Three prominent cardinals have launched an appeal to European church leaders to help relocate refugees presently hosted by the Greek island of Lesbos.

Greece says it is suspending an emergency plan to build migrant detention camps on Greek islands near the Turkish coast.

Around 2,000 migrants took to the streets on the Greek island of Lesbos, with some clashing with police, to protest the Greek government’s tougher migration policy.

The pope’s right-hand man for charitable outreach has returned to Rome from the Greek island of Lesbos with 33 migrants in tow and a harsh assessment of the state of affairs for migrants on the island.

Pope Francis has sent the papal almoner back to the Greek island of Lesbos to pick up 33 asylum-seekers and bring them back to Rome.

The Greek coastguard has said more than 1,350 migrants arrived on various islands in the Aegean Sea over the weekend as tensions boil in the already overcrowded camps.

The Greek government has evacuated more migrants from the island of Lesbos to the mainland as the country prepares for a potential new wave of migrants from Turkey.

As tens of thousands of illegal immigrants continue to enter Europe after crossing by boat from Turkey, Greece said it will call on the European Union to impose sanctions on member states that refuse to accept their share of new arrivals.

German interior minister Horst Seehofer travelled to Turkey and Greece this week to meet with government leaders to prevent a new migrant crisis.

The hulking Greek coastguard officer gazed intently as another group of migrants, the fifth of the day, boarded a minibus after landing on a beach on the island of Lesbos.

At least two Afghans died Sunday when a riot broke out in their rescue camp on the Greek island of Lesbos as illegal migrant numbers surge once more across the Mediterranean.

Ten undocumented Syrian migrants who were disguised as a Ukrainian volleyball team were stopped and arrested on Sunday by Greek police. All were arrested at Athens’ Eleftherios Venizelos airport after border security officials found the Ukrainian passports they were carrying

At least 500 migrants have landed on the Greek island of Lesbos this week from Turkey in a single day, as conditions on the islands in the Aegean continue to deteriorate.

The new conservative Greek government is looking to enforce stricter migration controls, claiming that its capacity to house incoming migrants is deteriorating by the day. Giorgos Koumoutsakos, a member of the now ruling New Democracy party, blamed the prior leftist

Residents on the Greek island of Lesbos have reacted with anger to the destruction of a large stone cross by an unknown group of people, just weeks after an open borders-backing NGO demanded its removal on the basis it promoted “hate” against migrants.