Fifty years ago the Catholic Church seeking to focus on the human dignity of migrants and refugees began observing National Migration Week in the season of the Epiphany. As people reflect on the visit of the three wise men from the east to the baby Jesus and this revelation of Christ as light to the nations, all are invited to deeper love for the whole human family, not just one’s own tribe. A Toolkit of resources for National Migration Week, January 5-11, 2020, with the theme “Promoting and Church and a World for All” can be found at https://justiceforimmigrants.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/FInal-NMW-Toolkit-2020.pdf
Pope Francis
recently said migrants are victims of injustice. “It is injustice that forces
many migrants to leave
their lands. It is injustice that forces them to cross deserts and suffer abuse and torture
in detention camps. It is injustice that rejects them and makes them die at sea.” He went
further to say, “We must help and save [these victims], because we are all responsible for
the life of our neighbor, and the Lord will ask us for an account at the time of judgment.”
All are called to work for justice, especially for the
children who are suffering. One way to
help them is by amplifying their words and their stories. Read about the
children. “There is tremendous pain in
these children’s stories and we ask that you gently embrace their stories with
humility, openness, and respect, and find a way within your talents, gifts, and
calling to share their words with the universe in the hope that the truth will
ensure that these practices end so that these children will suffer no more. It
might be a poem, a song, a sermon, a rally, a billboard. Only you will know.
Please answer the call to amplify their voices and elevate the truth.”
https://www.project-amplify.org/take-action
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