[...] he met with Nour Essa, who along with her husband and child flew back to Rome with the pope after his April 16, 2016 trip to Lesbos. [...] Essa has won a government scholarship to finish her biology studies at Roma Tre and has become something of an activist for refugee rights in her new country. The Sant'Egidio community, a Catholic charity, took responsibility for settling the dozen refugees, getting the children enrolled in school and finding housing, jobs and language classes for the parents. Essa recently was on hand at Rome's airport to welcome a group of 41 Syrian refugees brought to Italy by a joint program of Sant'Egidio and a Protestant church that organizes "humanitarian corridors" for migrants to legally migrate to Europe.