European bishops’ conferences to discuss pastoral care of migrants
June 26, 2015
Bishops and other representatives from Europe’s episcopal conferences will begin a four-day meeting on June 29 to discuss the pastoral care of migrants.
“We cannot pretend that nothing is happening around us; we cannot look away from that wounded humanity which is holding out its hand to us,” said Msgr. Duarte da Cunha, the general secretary of the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe.
“Where there is war, where there is persecution, where there is hunger, how is it possible to put an end to this rampant exodus?” he added. “If the Church knows how to be present, it also knows it cannot do everything. The national governments and the European Union must tackle the situation without hypocrisy and with a profound and sincere sense of solidarity.”
Topics on the agenda of the meeting include human trafficking, the proclamation of the Gospel to Chinese migrants, and “the issue of the celebration of the sacraments in the relationship between the native church and the welcoming church.”
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