Migration considered globally is a structural phenomenon, not a passing emergency. Migration may occur within a country or between different countries. The Church’s concern is focused especially on those fleeing from war, violence, political or religious persecution, from natural disasters including those caused by climate change, and from extreme poverty: many of them are young. In general they are seeking opportunities for themselves and their families. They dream of a better future and they want to create the conditions for attaining it. Many Synod Fathers stressed that migrants are a “paradigm” able to shed light on our times and particularly on the condition of the young, and they remind us of the original condition of faith, that of being “strangers and exiles on the earth” (Heb 11:13).
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