Heartwarming moment German girl openly welcomes refugee

Germany works to distribute migrants to EU recipients

A Vine uploaded by NBC reporter Cassandra Vinograd shows a beautiful moment when a German child shares candy with a young refugee.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (Catholic Online) - The Vine has been looped over 470,000 times and is labeled "Touching moment German girl hands refugee child a sweet."

Amid the migrant crisis and earlier reports of aggressive migrants, the Vine shows the kindness Germans have shown the refugees. Germany welcomed over 10,000 refugees in a single day, greeting the migrants with cheers, food and warm clothes.

Angela Merkel, German's Chancellor, has asked countries who receive German-funded EU subsidies to stand together. She believes Germany needs to begin a joint system to help distribute refugees.

Eighty-thousand refugees are expected to enter Germany this year and the flood of humanity is too much for one country to bear alone. 

"This joint European asylum system cannot just exist on paper but must also exist in practice. I say that because it lays out minimum standards for accommodating refugees and the task of registering refugees," Merkel said, in a news conference with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven in Berlin. "[W]e should not now outbid each other with threats. We should speak to each other in a spirit of mutual respect."

Sweden expects 74,000 refugees while Greece and Italy are unable to accept the refugees who continue to arrive by sea from Turkey and North Africa.

Lofven also asked the EU to join in the distribution of refugees, saying "our responsibility is deeply moral. It is a human responsibility. We have to do this together. There are 28 countries in the EU with the same responsibility."

Daily Mail reports central and eastern Europe Union states have refused mandatory quotas to accept refugees as the European Commission prepares to present a plan to that end.

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