Work to prevent mass migration, Holy See diplomat says during UN discussion
October 08, 2014
Noting that “we have reached the highest number of forcibly displaced persons since World War II,” a leading Vatican diplomat told a UN agency that it was time “to reflect upon and urgently to devise preventive measures so that people are not forced to leave their homes in order to survive.”
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, who represents the Holy See at UN offices in Geneva, said that “the necessary change of policy from focusing on assistance to prevention implies an important cultural shift, in which the human person, with his inviolable dignity and inalienable human rights, is the center of attention, rather than being a mere instrument for economic and political decisions.”
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Oct. 08, 2014 7:37 PM ET USA
Maybe we need another crusade? Didn't the terrorists call us crusaders when GW Bush was waging war in Iraq? Isn't "a change in policy from...assistance to prevention" the initial phase in preparation for a crusade? At a convocation a few years ago the first woman president of an African nation couldn't stop praising GW for the crusade he was waging against injustice in Africa and Asia. While I sat grinning with glee, the multitude in the university audience sat silent in stunned disbelief.
