Pope Francis calls for a shared response to challenge
of contemporary migration
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| Pope Francis blessed faithful during his visit in Lampedusa Island, south Italia.- ANSA |
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis’ message for the 104th
World Day of Migrants and Refugees was released on Monday under
the title, “Welcoming, protecting, promoting and integrating migrants and
refugees. In the message the Pope calls for a shared response to the challenges
of contemporary migration, adding that "in order to achieve the
desired outcome, the contribution of political communities and civil societies
is indispensable."
Shared response
In the message for the 104th World Day of Migrants and
Refugees the Pope says that “The Lord entrusts to the Church’s motherly love
every person forced to leave their homeland in search of a better future. This
solidarity, he adds, “must be concretely expressed at every stage of the
migratory experience – from departure through journey to arrival and return.”
Pope Francis goes on to say that this is a great
responsibility, which “the Church intends to share with all believers and men
and women of good will, who are called to respond to the many challenges of
contemporary migration with generosity, promptness, wisdom and foresight, each
according to their own abilities.
Pope Francis sums up that shared response in four verbs: to
welcome, to protect, to promote and to integrate”.
Welcoming, explains the Holy Father means, “above all,
offering broader options for migrants and refugees to enter destination
countries safely and legally. This, he says, calls for a concrete
commitment to increase and simplify the process for granting humanitarian visas
and for reunifying families.” The Pope also emphasises the importance of
“offering migrants and refugees adequate and dignified initial accommodation.”
Protecting migrants
The second verb, protecting Pope Francis continues “may be
understood as a series of steps intended to defend the rights and dignity of
migrants and refugees, independent of their legal status. When duly recognised
and valued, the Pope says, the potential and skills of migrants, asylum seekers
and refugees are a true resource for the communities that welcome them.”
Speaking about the third verb Promoting, the Holy Father
notes that “many migrants and refugees have abilities, such as their ability to
work. He goes on to encourage a determined effort to promote the social and
professional inclusion of migrants and refugees, guaranteeing for all the
possibility of employment, language instruction and active citizenship.
With regard to integration, the Pope comments that
integration is not “an assimilation that leads migrants to suppress or to
forget their own cultural identity. Rather, he adds, “contact with others leads
to discovering their ‘secret’, to being open to them in order to welcome their
valid aspects and thus contribute to knowing each one better.”
Global Contribution
Concluding the message the Holy Father underlines that the
Church is ready to commit herself to realising all the initiatives proposed.
Yet, he stresses, “in order to achieve the desired outcome, the contribution of
political communities and civil societies is indispensable, each according to
their own responsibilities.
Pope Francis also invites the faithful to play their part in
the process leading to the approval of the two Global Compacts, one for
refugees and the other for migrants.
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