Pope warns that fearing migration leads to racism
Pope warns that fearing migration leads to racism
Migrants, refugees and trafficking victims have become “emblems of exclusion,” Pope Francis said in his message for the 2019 World Day of Migrants and Refugees which will be celebrated on September 29 this year. The attitude is “sounding an alarm bell for the moral decline we will face if we continue to give ground to this throw-away culture”, he added.
The attitude towards migrants and refugees is ”sounding an alarm bell for the moral decline we will face if we continue to give ground to this throw-away culture”, Pope Francis has said in his message for the 2019 World Day of Migrants and Refugees to be celebrated on September 29. In fact, if these attitudes continue, “anyone who does not fall within the accepted norms of physical, mental and social well-being is at risk of marginalization and exclusion.”
Italy and the rest of Europe are preoccupied with discussing the outcome of the European elections. In some countries, like Italy, nationalist and anti-migrant parties grew in strength. Many Catholics also voted for these parties. At this time then, the Pontiff reaffirmed his principles regarding migration and how our attitudes towards it measure the extent of “our humanity.”