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Catholic Church in Mexico to help emigrants to USA
Money collected to provide legal advice and protection
**Campaign in Mexico Aims to Help Emigrants
**MEXICO CITY, SEPT. 6, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The Church in Mexico is dedicating a week to collect funds to help emigrants going to the United States, in part to sensitize Mexican society about this acute human problem.
Government sources estimate that every year some 500,000 men, women and children leave the country in search of work opportunities in the United States. Close to 500 die every year in their attempt to cross the border and enter U.S. territory illegally.
Last Sunday, coinciding with the National Day of Migrants, Mexican prelates opened the fund-raising campaign with a Mass celebrated at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Consuls and ambassadors of Mexico were on hand.
The Day of Migrants aims to collect funds to be able to offer employment in Mexico, while also generating a structure within the Church, especially in the border dioceses, to provide emigrants with legal advice and protection.
Bishop Renato Ascencio León of the city of Juarez, president of the episcopal Commission on Human Mobility, exhorted government leaders and society in general to find solutions to the phenomenon and tragedy lived by emigrants.
He described the problem of migration as “a typical and revealing plague of the imbalances and conflicts of the contemporary world.”
zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=94396
Money collected to provide legal advice and protection
**Campaign in Mexico Aims to Help Emigrants
**MEXICO CITY, SEPT. 6, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The Church in Mexico is dedicating a week to collect funds to help emigrants going to the United States, in part to sensitize Mexican society about this acute human problem.
Government sources estimate that every year some 500,000 men, women and children leave the country in search of work opportunities in the United States. Close to 500 die every year in their attempt to cross the border and enter U.S. territory illegally.
Last Sunday, coinciding with the National Day of Migrants, Mexican prelates opened the fund-raising campaign with a Mass celebrated at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Consuls and ambassadors of Mexico were on hand.
The Day of Migrants aims to collect funds to be able to offer employment in Mexico, while also generating a structure within the Church, especially in the border dioceses, to provide emigrants with legal advice and protection.
Bishop Renato Ascencio León of the city of Juarez, president of the episcopal Commission on Human Mobility, exhorted government leaders and society in general to find solutions to the phenomenon and tragedy lived by emigrants.
He described the problem of migration as “a typical and revealing plague of the imbalances and conflicts of the contemporary world.”
zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=94396