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Title: Refugees are God's children, Pope says in wake of Paris attacks
Source: Vatican City
URL Source: http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/Vatican.php?id=12919
Published: Nov 19, 2015
Author: Ann Schneible
Post Date: 2015-11-19 09:38:10 by Don
Keywords: None
Views: 3829
Comments: 33

Refugees are God's children, Pope says in wake of Paris attacks

By Ann Schneible

Vatican City, Nov 17, 2015 / 05:01 am (EWTN News/CNA)

Amid questions over whether European nations will reevaluate their migrant policies in the wake of Friday's deadly attacks in Paris, Pope Francis offered a reminder over the weekend that refugees are more than statistics: they are children of God, each with his or her own inherent dignity.

“Behind these statistics are people, each of them with a name, a face, a story, an inalienable dignity which is theirs as a child of God,” the Pope said Saturday at an audience marking the 35th anniversary of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS).

In line with the hopes of JRS founder, Fr. Pedro Arrupe S.J., the pontiff said the refugee service should “meet both the human and the spiritual needs of refugees, not only their immediate need of food and shelter, but also their need to see their human dignity respected, to be listened to and comforted.”

Pope Francis made these remarks one day after 129 people were slaughtered and more than 300 wounded in Paris by more than half a dozen Islamic militants.

Due to a Syrian passport found at the scene of the attacks, authorities believe at least one of the terrorists had passed through Greece, an entry point for many of the thousands of refugees into the continent, the AFP reports. Meanwhile, an Algerian asylum seeker has been detained in Germany in connection to the attacks, according to the AP. These developments come after months of escalating security concerns that terrorists are crossing into Europe alongside innocent migrants.

Until now, the EU has been working on policies to accommodate the refugees, enacting a quota policy earlier this year to disseminate the migrants across the continent. In the wake of the Nov. 13 attacks there is speculation over whether nations will reevaluate their own refugee policies.

During Saturday's audience with JRS, the Pope acknowledged the mass increase in the number of refugees fleeing Africa, Asia, and the Middle East in what has become largest-scale exodus since World War II.

He lauded JRS's presence in conflict and post-conflict regions, recalling the agency's mission: “to accompany, to serve and to defend the rights of refugees.”

“I think especially of your groups in Syria, Afghanistan, the Central African Republic and the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where you accept men and women of different religious beliefs who share your mission,” he said.

The pontiff went on to praise JRS' focus on education for migrant children, such as the planned initiative for the Year of Mercy entitled “Global Education”, with the motto “Mercy in Motion.”

Education, Pope Francis said, “provides refugees with the wherewithal to progress beyond survival, to keep alive the flame of hope, to believe in the future and to make plans.”

By providing education, JRS is helping “refugees to grow in self-confidence, to realize their highest inherent potential and to be able to defend their rights as individuals and communities,” the Pope added.

“For children forced to emigrate, schools are places of freedom,” he said.

JRS was established in 1980 by Fr. Arrupe, then superior general of the Society of Jesus and survivor of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bomb, an event in which he witnessed “the scope of that tragic exodus of refugees,” Pope Francis observed.

The pontiff concluded his address by calling those working with refugees to reflect on the Holy Family, as well as Christ's words: “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.”

“As you persevere in this work of providing education for refugees, think of the Holy Family, Our Lady, Saint Joseph, and the Child Jesus, who fled to Egypt to escape violence and to find refuge among strangers,” he said.

“Take these words with you always, so that they can bring you encouragement and consolation.”

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#22. To: Don (#0)

Woo Hoo, open up the vatican and spread the billions they have stolen over the years to the people.

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#23. To: calcon (#22)

There has been a terrorist alert in the Vatican. Is it a Put-on to show us the Pope is really on our side?

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