World Day of Migrants and Refugees
The World Day of Migrants and Refugees was instituted by Pope Pius X in 1914 and is celebrated each year with a message from our Holy Father on a particular theme.
Messages by Pope Francis:
2018 - Welcoming, protecting, promoting and integrating migrants and refugees
2017 - Child Migrants, the Vulnerable and the Voiceless
2016 - Migrants and Refugees Challenge Us. The Response of the Gospel of Mercy
2015: Church without frontiers, Mother to all
2014 - Migrants and Refugees: Towards a Better World
Messages by Pope Benedict XVI:
2013 - Migrations: pilgrimage of faith and hope
2012 - Migration and the New Evangelization
2010 - Minor migrants and refugees
Messages by Blessed John Paul II:
2005 - Intercultural Integration
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2004 - Migration with a view to peace
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2003 - For a commitment to overcome all racism, xenophobia & exaggerated nationalism
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2002 - Migration and inter-religious dialogue
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2001 - Pastoral care of Migrants, a way of accomplishing the Mission of the Church today
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2000 - The Jubilee and the unity of the human family
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1999
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1998
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1997
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1996
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