The Church provides accommodation to some 400 migrants in shelters across the country, according to the head of the Emigrants Commission.
Mgr Alfred Vella told the Times of Malta that those asking why the Church had not opened its doors to migrants living in poor conditions were “misinformed”.
“The Church has opened its doors, and has been doing so on a constant basis for decades,” he said.
Mgr Vella said the Church had 14 community homes, across seven localities, that offered shelter to varying degrees for migrants who had come upon hard times.
“This is an initiative that has been going on for years,” he said.
Mgr Vella was contacted after a number of Times of Malta readers asked why organisations like the Church had not offered a group of homeless migrants a place to live.
The government has said the group of migrants who were found living in inhumane conditions on a cow farm last week, would soon be sent back to Italy.
The 120 migrants were evicted from the cow farm in Qormi by the Planning Authority and the police last week.
The migrants were living in cow stalls, which had been converted into a shanty dormitory with wooden partitions separating makeshift bedrooms.
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