On June 6, 2013, the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People together with “Cor Unum” published the Document; “Welcoming Christ in Refugees and Forcibly Displaced Persons: Pastoral Guidelines”.
The document sets pastoral guidelines and aims to create awareness of the context of forced migration. The document also highlights the weaknesses and ambiguities of the strategies that the international community and national States have developed to prevent and oppose the phenomenon. Continue reading

