Closure to migrants is ineffective
and undignified, Italian bishops said Wednesday.
Italy has closed its ports to NGO run migrant rescue ships.
"Are we sure that closure towards migrants and refugees and
indifference for the causes that move them are the most
effective and dignified strategy to manage what is now not only
an emergency?" said the message of the Italian Bishops
Conference (CEI) on the 45th National Day for Life.
"Are we sure that war, in Ukraine as in the countries of the
many 'forgotten conflicts', is really able to overcome the
reasons that create it?"
The CEI added that "there is always life for children, the
disabled, the elderly, the ill, and migrants".
It said "there are so many men and women who ask above all for
respect, dignity and welcome".
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