Germany cannot take in all the world’s needy: Catholic church on refugee crisis

Germany has been struggling to cope with 1.1 million asylum seekers that arrived in 2015.

Syrian refugees get ready to enter Hungary from Serbia, on the border near Roszke, Friday, Aug. 28, 2015...

Hungary deployed police reinforcements to rein in an unrelenting flow of migrants across its porous border Thursday, but refugee activists said the effort appeared futile in a nation whose migrant camps are overloaded and barely delay their journeys west into the heart of the European Union. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

The German Catholic Church called for a reduction in the influx of refugees arriving in Germany, saying the country cannot take in “all the world’s needy,” according to an interview published on Saturday.

Germany has been struggling to cope with 1.1 million asylum seekers that arrived in 2015 and Berlin has not yet given an official estimate for how many it expects this year.