He stressed that refugees are “faces of hope.”
Pope Francis today lamented the “desert of humanity”Which refugees often face on their way to a better future and criticized that“ the construction of walls and the return of migrants to insecure places appear as the only solution that governments are capable of to manage human mobility ”.
The pope made these reflections in a message sent to the Astalli Center, Italian headquarters of the Jesuit service for refugees, which this Tuesday inaugurated an exhibition on refugees living in Rome and that can be seen until November 28 in the church of Sant’Andrea al Quirinale, reported the Vatican News portal.
The pope denounced how “terrible and despicable war can be” and referred to these people fleeing their countries in conflict as citizens who know “what it means. live without freedom and without rights“And that they have also at times experienced” slavery-like living conditions. “
Also people who suffer “impotence to see how” their “land dries up”, their “water is polluted” and they have “no other option but to undertake” a journey “to a safe place in which to fulfill their dreams”.
“Regrettably, taking the path has not in many cases been a true liberationToo many times you find yourself in a desert of humanity, with an indifference that has become globalized and that withers relations between men ”, he stressed.
Francisco condemned that in recent years “history has shown signs of a return to the past: conflicts are rekindled in different parts of the world, nationalisms and populisms reappear in different latitudes, the construction of walls and the return of migrants to insecure places appear as the only solution that governments are capable of managing human mobility ”.
However, in this time also “there have been signs of hope“, Which allow men” to be able to dream of walking together as a new people. “
Finally, he stressed that refugees are “faces of hope”And urged societies to build a“ fairer world, in which the dignity and rights ”of all are respected. (I)
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