AGENDA 21 PROPAGANDA: At UN meeting, Vatican calls for ‘human-centered approach to migration’
MORE CULT OF MAN TALK COMING FROM THE MASONIC INFESTED VATICAN
A NEW RELIGION FOUNDED UPON BY AN ILL UNDERSTOOD HUMAN DIGNITY
The Vatican’s chief diplomat at the UN, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, urged countries to consider “not only the sovereign right of States to manage and control their borders, but also their responsibility to promote and protect the dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms of all those on the move, regardless of their migratory status.”
Speaking April 11 at the UN’s Commission on Population and Development annual meeting, Auza warned against reactionary policies, such as population control or a narrow view of “national interest.”
“Unsustainable short-term solutions that prey on fear and use demography to justify closed borders or promote population control only lead to more unmanageable crises in the future,” said the archbishop.
He argued that “any country that wants to manage its borders effectively must also take responsibility for the common good of its neighbors.” He said that increasing globalization means that a country’s actions in its national interest directly impact other countries.
The 51st session of the UN Commission on Population and Development this week focused on discussion of “Sustainable Cities, Human Mobility and International Migration.”
The Vatican representative proposed that the key to making global migration more sustainable in the future is to combat human rights violations and poverty through education, health care, and policies that ensure access to social protection and decent work. Auza said that all countries share this responsibility for the “prosperity, peace and security of all.”
He also warned of the negative consequences when countries fail to allow regular pathways for migrants fleeing conflicts, economic crises, and national disasters. He said that this can force individuals to “seek irregular and often dangerous migratory routes, falling victim to smuggling, human trafficking, modern slavery and other forms of exploitation.”
The archbishop concluded by asking the United Nations to recommit “to what Pope Francis has called a ‘culture of encounter,’ which involves the humble recognition that the problems faced by people on the move cannot be addressed in isolation and therefore demand greater solidarity and commitment to the common good both at home and abroad.”
Auza, originally from the Philippines, has served as the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations since his appointment by Pope Francis in 2014. Auza’s past diplomatic services included representing the Church in Madagascar, Bulgaria and Albania.
Card. Parolin urges Oceania Church to fight individualism that harms man and environment
The Vatican Secretary of State
arrived in PNG for the assembly of the Federation of the Catholic
Bishops Conferences of Oceania that is discussing the “Care of our
Common Home.”
By Robin GomesVatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin has challenged the Catholic Church Oceania to identify and promote true alternatives to harmful modes of life prevalent in societies throughout the vast region that harm both man and his environment.
Cardinal Parolin made the exhortation on April 11 in Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea (PNG), where he arrived that day to attend the assembly of the Federation of the Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oceania (FCBCO).
Some 75 representatives of the federation that comprises the 4 bishops conferences of Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands are assembled in Port Moresby from April 11 to 18 on the theme, "Care of our Common Home of Oceania: A sea of possibilities".
Laudato Si
In his keynote address at the opening of the FCBCO conference on Wednesday, Cardinal Parolin shared his reflections on the “Laudato Si,” the second encyclical of Pope Francis, which addressed the obligations of “man” to each other and the environment.
He noted that “ideology has a great impact on our approach to questions of ecology and the environment.” He pointed out that the “mental ideology that can lead us to theses damaging consequences that the Pope mentioned in “Laudato Si” is the ideology of individualism.” This ideology whose origins can be traced back to the Age of Enlightenment, he explained, encourages separation from one another and from the community and brings us towards other means of individual and independent living.
Warm welcome
Despite the rain, over 300 people, religious and lay faithful accompanied by Church leaders, accorded the cardinal a colourful ceremonial welcome at Port Moresby’s Jackson International Airport. Gifts of betel-nut, and a live chicken were presented to him by Papuan dancers.
"I come as Secretary of State of His Holiness Pope Francis and I know that your welcome is also a sign of your affection for him,” said Cardinal Parolin, moved by their warmth. “The Holy Father asked me to assure you of his closeness and his prayers for your country. Let us hope we can share in these days a good experience of the love of God,” he said.
Issues affecting Oceania
Fr. Victor Roche, Secretary of the Catholic Bishop Conference of Papua New Guinea explained to the Vatican’s Fides news agency that participants in the FCBCO will study the environmental and social challenges they are facing and try find concrete solutions to the needs of their regions and the communities they represent.
The Bishops of these remote countries are concerned about environmental issues, such as the care of the ocean ecosystem, and the protection of human rights and the environment, threatened by an economy of intense exploitation of this vast geographical area.
The issues that are worrying this corner of the globe are not exclusively linked to the care of the environment: issues such as migration and the hospitality of refugees push the Bishops of countries like Australia and Papua New Guinea in search of solutions that foster integration and reception, respecting the human dignity of all.
The Assembly of Bishops of the Federation of Bishops of Oceania is held every four years.
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