ROME (AP) — Italy’s immigration crisis has so overloaded the government’s centers that churches are now opening their doors to newly arrived migrants, many of them fleeing conflicts in Syria and Africa.

The Italian coast guard rescued another 293 migrants at sea and brought them to Sicily Tuesday. They join the nearly 60,000 migrants who have arrived in Italy in the first half of 2014, far more than the 42,000 who arrived in all of 2013.