“I encourage you to develop concrete proposals to promote regular and safe migration,” the Pope told participants in the forum, which will run until October 28 in this city and other cities in this Italian region with the theme “Free Exit, Free to stay.”
He reiterated what he said on October 19, 2023 in his prayer for migrants, where he noted that “it is necessary to step up efforts to combat criminal networks that speculate on the dreams of migrants, but it is also necessary to show the safest ways.” .
“That is why we must work to expand regular migration channels,” he stressed, adding that at the same time we must work hard to guarantee everyone the right not to have to migrate, because “immigrants flee poverty, out of fear Despair.” .
In order to eliminate these causes and thus put an end to forced migration, “the joint commitment of everyone is necessary, each according to his responsibility.” An obligation that begins with us asking ourselves what we can do, but also what we can do shouldn’t do any more.”
In this sense, the Pope recalled what was expressed in his message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2023: “We must do everything to stop the arms race, economic colonialism and the plunder of other people’s resources, the destruction of ours shared house.”
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