Pope promotes Share the
Journey global pilgrimage on official launch
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| Cardinal Tagle kicks off the Share the Journey campaign with pilgrims. |
Pope Francis greets participants in the global pilgrimage
portion of Caritas Internationalis' Share the Journey campaign, as Cardinal
Tagle takes the first steps with migrants and refugees to launch the initiative
on Sunday.
By Sr Bernadette Mary Reis, fsp
Pope Francis gave a special greeting at the Angelus prayer
on Sunday to Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle and participants in a global
pilgrimage expressing solidarity with migrants and refugees.
"You've just completed a short pilgrimage within
Rome," the Pope said, "to express your desire to walk together and
thus learn to know each other better."
The Holy Father encouraged the "Share the Journey"
initiative, and said it "can transform our relationship with
migrants."
Cardinal Tagle, President of Caritas Internationalis,
officially launched the global pilgrimage portion of the Share the Journey
campaign on Sunday by walking together with migrants and refugees. He is asking
other communities around the world to opposed hatred and fear by walking
together with migrants and refugees for a million kilometers (621,371,192
miles).
Share the Journey campaign
This global pilgrimage is part of the Share the Journey
campaign. Initiated in 2017 by Pope Francis, it seeks to bridge the gap between
host communities and migrants, promoting a culture of encounter. Providing the
vision for the campaign, Pope Francis said:
“Hope is the force that drives us to share the journey,
because the journey is made jointly: by those who come to our land, and by us
who go towards their heart, to understand them, to understand their culture,
their language.”
It just takes one step
Speaking about the global pilgrimage, Cardinal Tagle called
it a challenge to “oppose a rhetoric of fear and hate with actions of love,
kindness and mercy”.
This is exactly what the Share the Journey campaign
proposes. It starts, he says, with “a change in our hearts and in our
communities [which] starts with the decision to take one simple step with migrants
and refugees”.
Global Pilgrimage
The pilgrimage organized in Rome is one of many taking place
throughout the world. Similar walks have already been launched by local Caritas
branches in Chile, New Zealand, Canada, the UK, and the US. Others will be
launched within the next 6 months.
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