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Migration, A Sign Of The Times: A Framework For A Pastoral Care Response, Alan J. Hilliard
Migration, A Sign Of The Times: A Framework For A Pastoral Care Response, Alan J. Hilliard
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Migration, a Sign of the Times – A Framework for a Pastoral Care Response.
Migration is a sign of the times we live in It has been described as ‘the orphan of the global institutional architecture’[1]. However the letter introducing the document Erga Migrantes Caritas Christi signed by the Prefect of the Congregation asserts that migration as well as being a ‘sign of the times’ is also a ‘sign of the presence of God in history and in the community of peoples’. This paper identifies many of the issues that emerge in the pastoral care of migrants from …