MIGRATION AND POVERTY
ISSUES AND RESPONSES OF THE CHURCH
Keywords:
MIGRATION, POVERTY, ISSUES AND RESPONSESAbstract
Although peoples have been on the move from time immemorial, migration has become truly a phenomenon of our times because of globalisation. The biggest challenges of globalisation are migration and poverty. The twenty-first century has been called “the age of migration.” Our modern economic models heighten exclusion and inequality. As a result, issues of migration and poverty remain widespread. The issues of migration and poverty could be seen as “signs of the time” to be interpreted in the light of the Word of God and the Magisterium of the Church. Both issues are intertwined. The first part of this paper highlights the issue of migration, while the second part underlines the issue of poverty. And the third part highlights the responses of the Universal Church to these issues, while the last part briefly discusses the response of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences (FABC). We do make some recommendations, in the light of the social teaching of the Church, in view of creating a better world wherein everyone will feel safe and secure and live peacefully.
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