Bishops in Mexico's South Say Catholics Must Change Views on Migrants David Agren - Catholic News Service
go to original February 4, 2015

Bishops from Mexico's southernmost dioceses issued a statement calling for Catholics to stop acting indifferently toward the difficulties faced by undocumented migrants, who continue abandoning Central America and taking dangerous trips through Mexico in their attempts at reaching the United States.

"Our voice will continue being one of evangelization, which asks for a change of attitude from everyone: moving from selfishness to solidarity; from seeking individual advantages to feeling brotherhood with the most needy," said the statement, issued Jan. 30 after a meeting of Mexican and Central American bishops in Tapachula, on the Mexico-Guatemala border.

"Dioceses and parishes must promote an integral evangelization based on the recognition of the dignity of all persons (and) attending with special kindness to the weakest ones. They are the face of Christ," continued the statement, signed Bishop Guillermo Ortiz Mondragon of Cuautitlan, president of the bishops' migrant ministry, along with the bishops of Yucatan, Tabasco, Tapachula, Tehuantepec, Campeche and San Cristobal de Las Casas.

"Any migrant must see in our Catholic communities a church without borders, the mother of all, where no person feels excluded only for being from another country. For the Christian, foreigners don't exist because our faith calls on us to recognize them as brothers and sisters."

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