2024-06-04 17:02:07
Pope Francis mentioned assembly a migrant is assembly Christ, Italian information company ANSA reported.
“The photographs of the biblical exodus and of migrants share some similarities,” reads a message revealed right this moment by the Vatican.
“Just like the Israelites within the time of Moses, migrants are sometimes fleeing oppression, abuse, insecurity, discrimination, lack of alternatives for improvement. Just like the Jews within the desert, the migrants face many obstacles on their means: they’re examined in starvation and thirst, they’re worn out by work and illness, they’re tempted by despair. On this we see the thriller of the Incarnation. Subsequently, encountering the migrant, as with every brother and sister in want, is like encountering Christ,” added the message, BTA reported.
“He says so himself. He’s the one who knocks on the door, hungry, thirsty, international, bare, sick and imprisoned, begging to be welcomed and begging for assist. God doesn’t stroll solely along with his personal, but additionally inside them, within the sense that he connects with women and men of their journey by way of historical past, particularly with the poor and marginalized,” the Pope concluded in his message.