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1 FIFTH WORLD CONGRESS for the PASTORAL CARE of MIGRANTS and REFUGEES Presentation of the Fifth World Congress for the Pastoral 1 FIFTH WORLD CONGRESS FOR THE PASTORAL CARE OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES Presentation of the Fifth World Congress for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees Address of Pope John Paul II Address of H.E. Stephen Fumio Cardinal Hamao to His Holiness Pope John Paul II Welcome Address, Card. Stephen Fumio Hamao Presentation of the Congress, Card. Stephen Fumio Hamao The Present Situation of International Migration World-Wide, Dr. Gabriela Rodríguez Pizarro Refugees and International Migration. Analysis and Action Proposals, Prof. Stefano Zamagni The Situation and Challenges of the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees in Asia and the Pacific, Bishop Leon Tharmaraj The Situation and Challenges of the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees in North America, Rev. Anthony Mcguire Migrants and Refugees in Latin America, Msgr. Jacyr Francisco Braido, CS Situation and Challenges regarding the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees in Africa. Comments by a Witness and “Practitioner”, Abraham-Roch Okoku-Esseau, S.J. Situations and Challenges for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees in Europe, Msgr. Aldo Giordano Starting afresh from Christ. The Vision of the Church on Migrants and Refugees. (From Post- Vatican II till Today), H.E. Archbishop Agostino Marchetto Starting afresh from Christ. The Vision of the Church for a Multicultural/Intercultural Society, H.E. Cardinal Paul Poupard Starting afresh from Christ. The Vision and the Guidelines of the Church for Ecumenical Dialogue, Card. Walter Kasper Starting afresh from Christ. The Vision and Guidelines of the Church for Inter-Religious Dialogue, Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata The Anglican Communion, His Grace Ian George 2 World Council of Churches, Ms Doris Peschke The German Catholic Church’s Experience of Ecumenical Collaboration in its Work with Migrants and Refugees, Dr. Josef Voss Inter-Religious Experience of the Italian Catholic Mission in France, Sr. Valeria Rubin The Centre for Multicultural Pastoral Care Archdiocese of Brisbane, Australia, Mr. José Zepeda Our Lady of Hope Multi-Ethnic Parish and Migrant Community, Moscow, Fr. Michael Ryan Starting afresh from Christ for a more Christian World (In the Light of the Sacred Scriptures), Rev. Fr. Albert Vanhoye, S.J. Starting afresh from Christ for a more Fraternal and Welcoming World in Solidarity, H.E. Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya Starting afresh from Christ for a more Just, Free and Peaceful World, H.E. Card. Jean-Louis Tauran Looking after Immigrants and Refugees in Rome: Past and Present, Dr. Aldo Morrone Migrant Reception Centres in Honduras, Sr. Janete Aparecida Ferreira Afro-Asian Migrants in Lebanon, Rev. Martin J. Mcdermontt, SJ A JRS Experience in Africa, Sr. Anne Elizabeth Vuyst, SSMN Work among Trafficked Women in Thailand, Sr. M. Supaporn Chotiphol, RGS Starting afresh from Christ, Bread and Word of Life. He is our Hope, H.E. Card. Geraldo Majella Agnelo Starting afresh from Christ. The Eucharist, Sign and Instrument of the Unity of the Christian Community, Bishop Renato Ascencio León Starting afresh from Christ. The Eucharist, Seed of New Heavens and New Earth, Cardinal Godfried Danneels Reconciliation in the Balkans, Mr. Zenel Elshani Eucharist and Cooperation between Churches, Bishop Ramón C. Argüelles Assumption Catholic Church, Houston, Tx, Usa, Fr. Italo Dell’oro, CRS Catholic Organization for Human Promotion in Guinea, Africa, Mr. Robert Tédouno Thanks at the End of the Fifth World Congress, H.E. Stephen Fumio Cardinal Hamao Final Document 3 PRESENTATION OF THE FIFTH WORLD CONGRESS FOR THE PASTORAL CARE OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES Since 1979 our Pontifical Council has convoked a World Congress for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees every five years. These gatherings have a particular character, something unique in the world of those concerned with migration, namely an intimate connection with the pastoral concerns of the Universal Church and of the Holy Father in particular. Our Council, as a Dicastery of the Roman Curia, assists the Holy Father in his mission of confirming his brothers and sisters in faith, love and hope. Its official activities, like a World Congress, are carried out with his permission and blessing. They thus become expressions of the listening, teaching, and action of the Church that lives and exercises its mission, sharing “the joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted” (GS 1). Not by chance, each day of the Congress began at the Tables of the Word and the Eucharist, celebrated at the Tomb of Peter, with the participation of the bishops, priests, religious and lay faithful entrusted with the pastoral responsibility of eighty-nine Local Churches for migrants and refugees. This was a sign of communion among themselves and with the Successor of Peter and in a special way of what the Congress was trying to promote: “beginning afresh from Christ” (NMI 29-41), being renewed in this sacrament, and being confirmed in the courage to stake everything on the love of God revealed in Jesus Christ, always with the light of the Magisterium of the Church. The Congress was celebrated in the context of the situation of migrants and refugees that has continued evolving in the last five years. This is evident on several counts, first of all, in the process of globalization with its positive and negative effects, including that of encouraging – and even forcing – migration. Second, while migration realities of the past five years are no less dramatic than before, coverage in the popular media remains selective and often negative, thus not permitting an in-depth and truly global appreciation of the phenomenon for the general public. This weighs heavily on the challenges and duties facing local ecclesial communities as they develop their pastoral responsibility towards the migrant in general. Third, our history has entered a new millennium, marked not only by September 11th and an increased fear of foreigners, but also by the theological and pastoral vision offered us by Pope John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter, Novo Millennio Ineunte, three of whose leitmotifs determined the movement of the Congress. This interpretation of the new millennium also explains the special pastoral character of this Congress. Yearly there are thousands of meetings about migrants and refugees, but only a few reflect on related pastoral issues. The daily mission among migrants and refugees, which likewise aims at their integral human development, is seldom something that attracts the attention of the media. This specific area of pastoral care, owing to the better known humanitarian and legal issues closely connected with it, is something that needs continual development in its practice and theology as well as publicity. The Congress was intended to be an encouragement in that direction. These Proceedings are dedicated to those who participated in the Congress as well as those who were included in its discussions and prayer. In the first place these are migrants, foreign students, refugees, and displaced people who share the full communion of faith with us or are Christians or believers of other religions. They are not simply “objects” of pastoral care but, in the wide sense of this term, “subjects.” The Catholic faithful among them (re)build community far from home, educate their children for the future, bind up the physical 4 and spiritual wounds of their fellow travellers, and enrich and even revitalize the ecclesial communities that receive them. These Proceedings are, of course, primarily for the bishops, priests, religious and lay faithful who daily help bear the burden of their migrating brothers and sisters, those who forcefully remind us that we are a Pilgrim Church. Among them are also those whose cooperation with other Churches and Ecclesial Communities for the sake of migrants and refugees promotes the unity of the Church for which Jesus Christ prayed and offered his life. Pastoral agents who, among many activities, welcome migrants of other religions with the love of Christ should also feel included as they engage especially in that dialogue of life that assures the name of God is a source of peace. May this record of the Fifth World Congress keep alive and encourage the development of the reflections and paths for action indicated in the excellent reflections and edifying testimonies and experiences that enriched us during its five full days. And may our efforts be inspired and formed by the Spirit of the Risen Lord, who daily calls us to begin our mission afresh from him. 5 ADDRESS OF POPE JOHN PAUL II Your Eminences, Dear Brother Bishops, Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, 1. Peace be with you! It is with joy that I welcome you here today. I extend a special greeting to the President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hamao, and I thank him for the kind words addressed to me on your behalf. I am glad to greet the other Cardinals and the Bishops present among you, and to offer a particular welcome to our brothers and sisters from other Christian communities. On this occasion of your Fifth World Congress I also assure you of my spiritual closeness to the migrants, refugees, displaced persons and foreign students throughout the world whom you seek to assist. The work of promoting the well-being of the many men and women who for various reasons do not live in their homelands represents a vast field for the new evangelization to which the whole Church is called. An important condition of this task is to recognize the mobility – voluntary and involuntary – of so many families today. 2. The Church continues to seek to respond to the signs of the times; a challenge which always calls for renewed pastoral commitment. Inspired by Pope Pius XII’s Apostolic Constitution Exsul Familia and in response to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, the Pontifical Council is currently preparing an Instruction that will address the new spiritual and pastoral needs of migrants and refugees, and present the phenomenon of migration as a way of fostering dialogue, peace and the proclamation of the Gospel.
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