Vatican
City, 14 January 2013
(VIS) – After praying the Angelus, the Pope recalled that today
marks the World Day of Migrants and Refugees and, in his annual
message for the occasion, compared immigration to "a pilgrimage
of faith and hope".
"Those
who leave their lands," he emphasized, "do so because they
hope for a better future, but also because they trust in God who
guides the steps of the human being, as He did with Abraham. In this
way immigrants are bearers of faith and hope to the world. Today I
greet each one of them with a special prayer and blessing."
In
his greetings in French, the Pope repeated this theme, expressing the
desire that immigrants and their families, wherever they gather, "be
welcomed and assisted so that they might have a dignified existence.
Like Jesus," he urged, "we must be near to those who suffer
and who have no voice of their own to make themselves heard."
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