Pope calls for solidarity ahead of UN World Refugee
Day
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis
on Sunday appealed for solidarity with refugees as he noted that Monday marks
the annual United Nations World Refugee Day.
The Pope recalled that the
theme for this year’s event is ‘We stand together #With Refugees’ and with all
those forced to flee their lands. Refugees, he insisted, are people like
everyone else, who have been deprived by war of their homes, their jobs, their
parents and their friends.
“Their stories and their
faces” he said, “call on us to renew our commitment for building peace through
justice”. For this reason, he concluded, we want to stand together with them,
“to meet them, to welcome them, to listen to them, to become with them builders
of peace, according to God’s will”.
The Pope’s words came after
the recitation of the Angelus prayer, as he greeted thousands of pilgrims and
visitors gathered in St Peter’s Square.
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