BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel planned to discuss Europe's migrant crisis with her coalition partners Sunday, as Syrians, Iraqis and others fleeing war and persecution streamed into Germany for the second straight day. 
 
 Refugees show the victory sign behind a bus window as they leave the train station in Saalfeld, central Germany, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. Hundreds of refugees arrived to Saalfeld in a train from Munich... (Associated Press) 
 
 A young boy arrives in a train of the Austrian railway at the train station in Saalfeld, central Germany, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. Hundreds of refugees arrived in a train from Munich to be transported... (Associated Press) 
 
 Refugees arrive at the train station in Saalfeld, central Germany, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. Hundreds of refugees arrived in a train from Munich to be transported by busses to an accomodation centre. (AP... (Associated Press) 
 
 Refugees arrive at the train station in Saalfeld, central Germany, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. Hundreds of refugees arrived in a train from Munich to be transported by busses to an accomodation centre. (AP... (Associated Press) 
 
 Am man holds a cardboard with a 'Welcome' slogan during the arrival of refugees at the train station in Saalfeld, central Germany, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. Hundreds of refugees arrived in a train from... (Associated Press) 
 
 The Christian Social Union, the socially-conservative wing of Merkel's center-right bloc, has criticized the decision to open Germany's borders to migrants and refugees stuck in Hungary, the dpa news agency reported. 
 
 Meanwhile, the center-left Social Democrats, the third member of Merkel's three-party coalition, urged swift humanitarian help for those trekking through Europe in search of a better life. 
 
 "No decent person can remain cold and dismissive in the face of such suffering," said Thomas Oppermann, a senior Social Democrat. 
 
 He added that refugees should be fairly distributed in Europe, and countries should not avoid their responsibilities. "Whoever refuses to do their part calls into question whether they can be part of Europe." 
 
 German officials have been particularly angry at Hungary for encouraging migrants to keep traveling westward, instead of providing them with adequate shelter and the chance to apply for asylum there. 
 
 Thousands arrived in Germany by way of Austria by train, bus and car on Saturday. Most went to Munich, the Bavarian capital, where authorities said some 7,000 people were registered and over half received a bed for the night. 
 
 Special trains also took 570 people to the Thuringian town of Saalfeld. More than half of them were taken onward to Dresden, where a school for German army officers has been cleared to provide temporary shelter for 350 newcomers. 
 
 Other trains brought migrants to Hamburg in the north and Dortmund in the west of the country, while more than 300 people traveled to the capital Berlin on specially chartered buses. 
 
 At each stop the migrants were received with cheers, bags of food and toys for the children. 
 
 Most Germans have been welcoming of the migrants. But far-right groups have protested their arrival, including in Dortmund overnight. 
 
 Chancellor Merkel has warned that extremist groups might try to take advantage of the situation to stoke people's prejudices against refugees. Authorities estimate that up to 800,000 people could apply for asylum in Germany by the end of the year. 
 
 Germany's opposition Left Party, meanwhile, said the United States was to blame for the migrant crisis originating in the Middle East because it had indirectly supported terrorist groups in the region. 
 
 "If the German government had a little bit of courage it would at least ask the United States, as the main cause of the refugee tragedy, to pay some of the costs," dpa quoted Sahra Wagenknecht, a senior Left Party lawmaker, as saying. ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Austrian activist Angelika: "Politics has failed so we have to do something" 
 
 A convoy of cars driven by German and Austrian activists has crossed into Hungary to pick up migrants and help them reach western Europe. 
 
 Thousands - many of whom initially fled conflict in Syria - have made their way through Austria since Hungary removed restrictions on transit on Friday. 
 
 Buses and special trains have been taking them from the Hungarian border to Vienna and on to Germany. 
 
 The Pope said every Catholic parish in Europe should host a migrant family. 
 
 Speaking during the Angelus prayer, Pope Francis appealed for "every parish, every religious community, every monastery, every sanctuary in Europe" to take in a family. 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The border area is strewn with discarded belongings, as the migrants move into Austria 
 
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption The convoy taking migrants from Hungary to Austria is a private initiative 
 
 On Sunday a convoy of about 140 cars left Vienna for the Hungarian capital, Budapest, as part of a private initiative dubbed "refugeeconvoy" 
 
 One of the Austrian activists taking part, Angelika Neuwirth, told the BBC that their aim was to take them back to shelters in Austrian capital. 
 
 "I think this is my duty. I'm a mum, I'm a woman from Austria and I can't close my eyes anymore," she said. "We are all human. No-one is illegal." 
 
 However, Hungarian police spokeswoman Viktoria Csiszer-Kovacs said anyone taking migrants across the border was breaking the law. 
 
 Last week four Austrian activists who tried to do so were arrested for people smuggling but later released. 
 
 However, in the latest move a number of activists were able to collect migrants in Hungary without being stopped by police. 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Drone footage filmed on Friday and Saturday shows the number of migrants prepared to walk to Austria 
 
 In other developments: 
 
 German officials say 11,000 asylum seekers arrived in the country on Saturday, with another 10,000 expected on Sunday 
 
 114 migrants have been rescued from a fishing boat off Cyprus - Syrians bound for Greece 
 
 UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said Britain "needs to do even more" to help Syrian refugees 
 
 David Miliband, a former British foreign minister who now heads the New York-based International Rescue Committee, urged the US to take in 65,000 Syrian refugees 
 
 After days of confrontation and chaos, Hungary opened its borders with Austria and bussed thousands of migrants to the frontier on Friday. 
 
 Many, frustrated at being prevented from boarding trains in Budapest, had begun to walk along a motorway towards Austria. 
 
 Many of the migrants had travelled north through the Balkans - Greece, Macedonia and Serbia - before arriving in Hungary. 
 
 Hundreds more crossed into southern Hungary from Serbia on Sunday, where they were taken to a processing centre. 
 
 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Thousands more migrants arrived in Germany by train on Sunday 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Locals have welcomed Latifah al-Dobah and her family to their new home in Germany, as Murad Shishani reports 
 
 Germany, Austria, and Hungary have said the decision to allow migrants through is aimed at averting a humanitarian crisis, and will not set a precedent. 
 
 "Now, step by step, we must move away from emergency measures to lawful and humane normality," Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann reaffirmed on Sunday. 
 
 EU rules requiring refugees to apply for asylum in the first country they land in "are still valid", a German government spokesman said. 
 
 However, in August Germany waived the rule on asylum seekers from Syria, allowing them to register in Germany regardless of where they first entered the EU. 
 
 Germany expects to take in 800,000 people this year. Syrians are the largest group travelling, followed by Afghans and Eritreans. 
 
 At the scene: Matthew Price, BBC News 
 
 BBC reporters on Twitter 
 
 There is little sign of a co-ordinated EU response to the crisis, despite more than 350,000 migrants having crossed the EU's borders in 2015 alone. 
 
 Germany, backed by the European Commission, has been pushing for a quota system for sharing out newcomers between EU member states. 
 
 But this has been opposed by several eastern members. 
 
 On Saturday, Hungary said that while it had temporarily relaxed restrictions on the transit of asylum seekers, it was pressing ahead with plans to tighten border controls and could send troops to its southern frontier if parliament agreed. 
 
 A border fence is due to completed by 15 September. 
 
 Migrant boy remembered 
 
 Image copyright AP Image caption White balloons were released in the memory of Alan and Ghalib 
 
 A memorial has been held in Vancouver, Canada for three-year-old Alan Kurdi, his brother Ghalib and mother Rehanna, who drowned trying to reach the Greek island of Kos. The three have family in Canada. 
 
 Pictures of Alan's body, washed up on a Turkish beach, prompted widespread anguish. 
 
 Members of the Kurdi family were joined by more than 100 people to remember the three Syrians, who died on the journey to Europe after fleeing the conflict in their home country. Canada had earlier rejected an asylum application on behalf of the family. 
 
 Tima Kurdi, the boys' aunt, said she was worried about their father Abdullah, who attended the burial for his family in Syria on Friday. 
 
 "He's not leaving the graves. He was sleeping the last three days there, on the ground, beside them." 
 
 The story of Alan Kurdi's family 
 
 A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants. 
 
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 A migrant is confronted by a riot policeman during a protest in which hundreds of migrants and refugees demanded the authorities to let them go to Athens and continue their trip towards Northern Europe,... (Associated Press) 
 
 Refugees and migrants take part in a protest demanding the authorities to let them go to Athens and continue their trip towards Northern Europe, at the port of Mytilene, on the northeastern Greek island... (Associated Press) 
 
 Refugees and migrants take part in a protest demanding the authorities to let them go to Athens and continue their trip towards Northern Europe, at the port of Mytilene, on the northeastern Greek island... (Associated Press) 
 
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 12:30 p.m. 
 
 Pope Francis is asking faithful throughout Europe to shelter refugees fleeing "death from war and hunger." 
 
 Francis said Sunday that the Vatican's two parishes are taking in two families of refugees. He gave no details as he addressed tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square. 
 
 Francis said it's not enough to say, "Have courage, hang in there," to the hundreds of thousands of refugees who are on the march toward what he called "life's hope." 
 
 He called on every Catholic parish, convent, monastery and sanctuary in Europe to shelter a family, and asked bishops throughout Europe to urge their dioceses to do the same. 
 
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 11:30 p.m. 
 
 Israel's prime minister says his country is not indifferent to the plight of migrants and refugees flooding Europe, but that Israel is too vulnerable to absorb them. 
 
 Benjamin Netanyahu bemoaned the "human tragedy" of the victims of Syria's civil war and said Israel has aided them in various ways. But he added that Israel is too small a country, both geographically and demographically, to provide a haven for a large influx of migrants. 
 
 Israel runs a field hospital on its border with Syria and has taken in wounded Syrians, but has stopped short of opening the borders to its longtime enemy. 
 
 Israel's opposition leader Isaac Herzog says the country should take in a limited number of Syrian asylum seekers amid the current refugee crisis in Europe. 
 
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 10:45 p.m. 
 
 Authorities in Cyprus say they have rescued 114 people believed to be refugees fleeing war-torn Syria after their fishing boat issued a distress call some 46 miles (74 kilometers) off the east Mediterranean island nation's southern coast. 
 
 Cyprus police said Sunday that all 114 people, including Palestinians from Syria, are in good health. They include 19 women, 30 children, 5 infants and 60 men. 
 
 A merchant vessel notified Cyprus' Search and Rescue Center late Saturday that the refugees' 60-foot (18-meter) fishing boat was in trouble. 
 
 The refugees were transferred to the southern port of Larnaca for health and identity checks. 
 
 Police said three men, including a 28-year-old believed to be the boat's captain, have been arrested and are being questioned. 
 
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 10:00 a.m. 
 
 French mayors are offering to house refugees amid increasing concern for Syrians and others fleeing war and seeking haven in Europe. 
 
 French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a statement Sunday that several dozen mayors have offered to help in recent days, and convened a national meeting to organize refugee housing on Sept. 12. 
 
 France is trying to speed up the process for seeking asylum and to better welcome refugees, as the numbers coming to Europe this year have soared. Many asylum seekers in France have no place to live and sleep in make-shift camps, from Paris to Calais. 
 
 A grassroots French group arranging private housing for refugees has also seen a spike in offers in recent days, after the widely viewed photo of a drowned Syrian boy helped raise public awareness. 
 
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 9:30 a.m. 
 
 On the Greek island of Lesbos, police have used batons to beat back a demonstration by some 300 migrants chanting "Athena, Athena" as they tried to come out of the port area. Several of the protesters were injured in the clash, with one taken away unconscious by an ambulance. 
 
 The migrants, mostly Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans, say that local authorities on the Aegean island are not processing them quickly enough so they can continue their journey to western Europe. They also complain that authorities on Lesbos are not offering them any help and that they are fast running out of money. 
 
 The clashes early Sunday were the third in as many days between migrants and police. The demonstration on Sunday was led by Afghans. 
 
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 9:15 a.m. 
 
 Thousands of migrants and refugees have arrived by train and bus in cities across Germany overnight. 
 
 Police say a special train with 570 people on board arrived in the Thuringian town of Saalfeld late Saturday. More than half of them were taken onward to Dresden, where a school for German army officers has been cleared to provide temporary shelter for 350 newcomers. 
 
 Trains also took migrants to Hamburg in the north and Dortmund in the west of the country, while buses brought more than 300 people to the capital Berlin. 
 
 Thousands more people, mainly Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans fleeing war and persecution, are expected to arrive in Germany and Austria from Hungary on Sunday. 
 
 The refugees were allowed to leave Hungary Saturday after the country opened its borders with Austria.
– Thousands of migrants streamed into Germany and Austria for a second day today, with Munich alone having 7,000 registered, a fraught journey that was capped with cheers, welcome signs, hot tea, and toys for their children. "I said to myself, I have to do something," one volunteer handing out drinks tells the New York Times, while a German lawmaker tells the AP that, "No decent person can remain cold and dismissive in the face of such suffering. Whoever refuses to do their part calls into question whether they can be part of Europe." German Chancellor Angela Merkel was meeting with coalition partners today to figure out what to do with the influx, reports the BBC, as her nation estimates it could open its borders to up to 800,000. Pope Francis did not sit idly by, reports the AP, calling on every Catholic parish, convent, monastery, and sanctuary in Europe to host one migrant family. He put his money where his mouth is, announcing that the Vatican's two parishes would host two such families. "This has to be an eye-opener on how messed up the situation in Europe is now," Austria's foreign minister tells the Times. “I hope that this serves as a wake-up call that this cannot continue." Hungary, which had cracked down on the stream of migrants pouring in, opened its borders yesterday.