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Leo XIV Praises Flooding the West with Migrants: “Messengers of Hope”
gloria.tv | July26, 2025
"In a world darkened by war and injustice, even when all seems lost, migrants and refugees are messengers of hope.” Pope Leo XIV wrote this in his message for the upcoming World Day of Migrants and Refugees, published on 25 July.
He added: "Their courage and tenacity bear heroic testimony to a faith that sees beyond what our eyes can see, giving them the strength to defy death on the various contemporary migration routes."
They can initiate "interreligious dialogue based on everyday life and the search for common values".
Flashback: At the same event in 2001, John Paul II acknowledged that uncontrolled migration "may cause harm and be detrimental to the common good of the receiving community".
"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre