Caritas Internationalis is concluding its four-year “Share the Journey” campaign. The objective was to foster a culture of solidarity and hospitality toward migrants and refugees who have been forced out of their homes, often by poverty and violence.
CARD. LUIS ANTONIO TAGLE
President, Caritas Internationalis
“The 'Share the Journey' campaign has been a great moment of encounter, solidarity, and for us memory, and above all, an expression of the love of the Church for people on the move. Christians, Muslims, Hindus, followers of other religions and those with no religion were received as human beings.”
The global campaign has fueled concrete initiatives so people all over the world could personally meet migrants and refugees and become more aware of the challenges they face.
FR. BRUNO MARIE DUFFÉ
Secretary, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
“Migrants are not primarily migrants but people, persons, persons in move, person in migration. With a personal history, a personal memory, a land and a dignity”.
Although the campaign ends on June 20, Caritas will continue to help migrants and refugees all over the world.
ALOYSIUS JOHN
Secretary General, Caritas Internationalis
“During these four years of the campaign, Caritas Internationalis relentlessly undertook different challenges to manifest its determination not only to welcome and give hospitality to the migrants, but also to motivate and mobilize the public to undertake various actions of solidarity so that they could live out this moral obligation. And this is precisely the message of this end of the campaign, how do we keep this moving, how can this continue?”
An especially moving moment during the press conference was when Cardinal Tagle remembered his grandfather, who was also a migrant.
CARD. LUIS ANTONIO TAGLE
President, Caritas Internationalis
“These refugees reminded me of my 'migrant roots.' In them I saw my grandfather, who was born in China, but was forced to leave his homeland as a young boy with his uncle for the Philippines in search of a better future.”
Another reminder that migrants are not numbers, but people.
RR / Caritas Internationalis
