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17 August 2019It is dedicated to the suffering of migrant people the heart of the message sent by Pope Francis to the Rimini Meeting. "Many of our contemporaries fall under the blows of the trials of life, and find themselves alone and abandoned. And often they are treated as numbers in a statistic. We think of the thousands of individuals who flee wars and poverty every day: before they are numbers, they are faces , people, names and stories. We must never forget it, especially when the culture of waste marginalizes, discriminates and exploits, threatening the dignity of the person ", writes the pontiff."The man of today often lives in insecurity, walking as if groping, alien to himself; he seems to have no consistency anymore, so much is it true that he easily lets himself be seized by fear" we still read in the Pope's message, signed by the Vatican secretary of state, card. Pietro Parolin and addressed to the bishop of Rimini, Msgr. Francesco Lambiasi, in which it is underlined again that this is "an era where people are often faceless, anonymous figures because they have no one to lay their eyes on".
But there is something that "makes the Christian a presence in the world different from all the others": bringing "the announcement of which, without knowing it, the men and women of our time are more thirsty: it is between we the one who is the hope of life. We will be "original" - concludes the Pope's message - if our face will be the mirror of the face of the risen Christ ".