{"id":43908,"date":"2022-05-12T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T13:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2022\/05\/12\/the-vatican-remembers-the-260-million-refugees-in-the-world-and-calls-for-change\/"},"modified":"2022-05-12T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T13:33:00","slug":"the-vatican-remembers-the-260-million-refugees-in-the-world-and-calls-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2022\/05\/12\/the-vatican-remembers-the-260-million-refugees-in-the-world-and-calls-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vatican remembers the 260 million refugees in the world and calls for change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican released the Pope's message for the 108th World Day of Migrants and Refugees.<\/p>\n<p>We have seen Pope Francis look into the eyes of migrants and refugees in Lampedusa.<\/p>\n<p>As well as in El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>And Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we've seen him with them in various refugee camps. From Lesbos...to the Central African Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in his message for World Day of Migrants and Refugees, the Pope is asking the Church and the world not to turn his back on them. <\/p>\n<p><em>This year I have chosen as the theme of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees: 'Building the Future with Migrants and Refugees.' There can be no tomorrow without this inclusion<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Vatican has released Pope Francis' message for this special day to be celebrated on September 25.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Francesco Montenegro noted that Pope Francis is asking the world for a radical change in attitude towards refugees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CARD. FRANCESCO MONTENEGRO<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>It's said that in the world there are about 260 million migrants, so this shows that the world is changing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Cardinal speaks from experience. He was the bishop of the diocese containing Lampedusa, a common destination for African refugees and migrants. For years, he has witnessed their stories firsthand.<\/p>\n<p>World Day of Migrants and Refugees is nothing new. This September marks its 108th year, after being founded in 1914, by Pope Benedict XV.<\/p>\n<p>JRB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 12, 2022. The Vatican released the Pope's message for the 108th World Day of Migrants and Refugees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kZBOxsZzMgM","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsmsgiornatamigranteeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsmsgiornatamigranteint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}