INSIGHTS: Think Differently!

For the Love of the Migrants: The Church’s Ministerial Response to the Migration Phenomenon By Archie R. Magarao 8 October 2010 “Seeds migrate on the wings of the winds, plants migrate from continent to continent brought by the currents of the sea, birds and beasts migrate, and in the same way and most of all, people migrate either in groups or individually, always as instruments of the divine providence that watches over and guides human destinies, even though calamity, toward their end, which is the perfection of man on earth and the glory of God in heaven. Such is the lesson that divine revelation and modern history and biology teach us!” Blessed John Baptist Scalabrini (L’Emigrazione degli Operai Italiani, Ferrara 1899) Introduction The love of Christ towards migrants urges us (cf. 2 Co 5:14) to look afresh at their problems, which are to be met with today all over the world. In fact nearly all countries are now faced with the eruption of the migra