Cardinal Marx, Protestant counterpart: welcome migrants, integrate them into European society

October 09, 2015

The presidents of COMECE (the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community) and its Orthodox and Protestant counterpart (the Conference of European Churches) have issued a joint statement on Europe’s migrant crisis.

In their statement, issued on the eve of the Synod of Bishops, Cardinal Reinhard Marx and Anglican Bishop Christopher Hill called for “a concerted, unified political response to the current migrant crisis and pledge the support of the Churches we represent by playing our part, at every level, from the local/parochial to the national, in embracing with generosity the twin challenges of welcoming brothers and sisters from beyond our territorial frontiers in desperate need and who turn to us for help, and of making them an integral part of the European society to which we belong.”

 

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Further information:

• Unified political response needed to current migrant crisis (COMECE)