The New Evangelization for the Migrants

 

Pope Benedict XVI has called for new evangelization for the Migrants. More and more young people come out of their own country. They migrate with the fine intellectual capability of their own countries and live in places where in they are accepted. It is very difficult for the youngsters to safeguard the faith they have received in their own culture.

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/migration/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20110921_world-migrants-day_en.html

The God’s own people-Israelites were also Migrants. They suffered a lot in their journey to the Promised Land. God the father was with them to guide them and lead them towards the Promised Land. In the same way, the church tries to take care of the young emigrants in various aspects. The church not only speaks about the faith oriented topics but also it is bothered about the human lives in the world. The church is not a spectator where in the people struggle for the day to day lives. God insisted the people of Israel to have faith in Him even in their trials and tribulations. The church today also insists the same. The young migrants suffer a lot. But the church urges the young Catholics not to lose their faith in the mobility of life one part of the world to the other.

Usually the migrants lose their ancestral tradition when they pass on to the other place or the new place. Though it may be an opportunity for the innovative world to come, the lack of ancestral tradition will have the impact on the interpersonal relationship. The modernized world has already lost the value of love. It has become the world of materialism. The materialism has already led to the indifference to religion and God. So it is right time to call for the new evangelization for the migrants. Though the Israelites were the nomads, God the father never led them astray from Him. The young immigrants must be able to find out the providence of God in the new place. They must be able to find out the meaning of life in the light of faith of the Catholic Church.