Vatican City (Vatican), 23 October (LaPresse) – "States have the right and duty to protect their borders, but this should be balanced by the moral obligation to provide refuge. With the abuse of vulnerable migrants, we are not witnessing the legitimate exercise of national sovereignty, but rather serious crimes committed or tolerated by the state. Increasingly inhumane measures are being taken – even politically celebrated – to treat these “undesirables” as if they were rubbish and not human beings. Christianity, on the other hand, refers to the God of love, who makes us all brothers and sisters and asks us to live as brothers and sisters." Thus Pope Leo XIV received the popular movements. ‘At the same time,’ the Pope continued, ‘I am encouraged to see how popular movements, civil society organisations and the Church are confronting these new forms of dehumanisation, constantly bearing witness that those in need are our neighbours, our brothers and sisters. This makes you champions of humanity, witnesses of justice, poets of solidarity.’
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