VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Heartbreaking images of mothers and fathers handing their infants and toddlers to U.S. soldiers during the evacuation of Kabul were like seeing the desperation of Jochebed, Moses’ mother, as she put him in a basket in the Nile River to save him, said an editorial in the Vatican newspaper. Headlined “Afghan Moses,” the front-page article reflected on how those scenes represented, for Moses and the Afghan children, “a traumatic separation” caused by “violence and oppression” as mothers and fathers “abandon” their children in order to save them. “We have to find the courage to stand before the waters of the Nile, which carry away the basket with a child inside, while his sister Miriam tries to see what will become of her brother,” said the Aug. 25 editorial, written by Father Luigi Maria Epicoco, a 40-year-old theologian, philosopher and contributor to the paper. “In our powerlessness we could, however, become like Miriam and feel responsible” for what happens to these children and find a way, like Miriam did, for them to be happily reunited again, the priest wrote. The Vatican has expressed deep concern over the evolving crisis in Afghanistan. Msgr. John Putzer, chargé d’affaires of the Holy See’s Permanent Mission for Geneva-based U.N. agencies, repeated Pope Francis’ appeal from Aug. 15, asking that “solutions can be found at the table of dialogue.”