Lauren Frayer

Pope Francis has called on all of Europe's Catholics to take in refugees. In Hungary, church leaders have been hesitant, and Catholic churches are conspicuously absent from relief efforts.

Hungarian laws criminalizing the offer of rides to people who enter the country illegally are aimed at traffickers — but are making some ordinary Hungarians think twice about helping asylum seekers.

Separatists in Spain's prosperous northeast region of Catalonia are celebrating an election victory they say puts them on track to establish the world's newest country. But their fail...

NPR's Lauren Frayer has spent the last two weeks covering the migrant crisis in Europe and talks about the shifts in countries closing or opening their doors to refugees.

Asylum-seekers frustrated by the Hungary closing its borders are looking for other routes into northern Europe. Thousands of migrants have now arrived in Croatia, where thousands of p...

Thousands of people are heading for Serbia's border with Croatia, which like Hungary is a member of the European Union — but unlike Hungary is wide open to migrants.

Now that Hungary has restricted its previously open border with Serbia, thousands of asylum-seekers find themselves stranded on the Serbian side of the frontier.

Hungary has created a physical barrier along its entire southern border, in an attempt to keep asylum-seekers out of its territory. Many refugees travel through Hungary on their way to Germany.

A military operation closed Hungary's borders Monday. With other countries also tightening restrictions, refugees wonder where they'll end up.

As Middle Eastern migrants make their way through Budapest's Keleti train station, they are often greeted — and treated — by doctors with roots in the very region the migrants have just fled.

One of those greeters is Kaveh Chamsai, a bearded doctor of Iranian origin who recently graduated from ...

The country is sending troops to its border with Serbia, in an effort to stop the flow of migrants and refugees trying to cross into Europe.

Some Budapest medical school graduates — doctors from Turkey and Iran — have returned to help colleagues from their alma mater treat refugees at the city's main train station.

Migrants from as far away as Afghanistan have been placed behind barbed wire in detention camps in Hungary. NPR's Lauren Frayer visits a camp where the numbers — and the frustrations — keep growing.

Migrants crossing Hungary's border with Serbia are being held in temporary camps with few facilities, and some have tried to break out and make their own way north to Germany.

A Holocaust survivor, liberated 70 years ago from a concentration camp, fled Budapest in Hungary's 1956 uprising against Soviet control. He knows what it means to be uprooted and today helps refugees.

When Denise Thiem saw the 2011 Martin Sheen movie The Way, which chronicles an American's journey along Spain's most famous pilgrimage route, the Camino de Santiago, the 41-year-old woman was inspired, friends and family say.

It's a physical and spiritual journey, and Thiem was intrigued.

The path, which stretches ...

Whole villages are up for sale in Spain, and they're going cheap. This story originally aired on August 23, 2015 on Weekend Edition Sunday.