On the eve of the Week of Prayer for Christian unity and on the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Pope Benedict spoke of the experience of the many men and women who are forced to leave their own country.
He said migration, which is sometimes voluntary, is sometimes "forced by war or persecution."
The Pope said the Church - remembering the Holy Family - has always lived within itself the experience of migration.
But if on the one hand the movement of Christians would be an impoverishment for the countries where their ancestors lived, the Holy Father said, on the other it is an opportunity to increase the missionary zeal of the Word of God.
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