Welcoming the stranger is an 'essential' part of Catholicism, they told Gov. Greg Abbott, who is Catholic.
from Afghanistan, Cameroon and Togo a chance to build new lives in Italy. Their resettlement was financed by the Holy See and by the Community of Sant’Egidio, a Catholic charity.Pope Francis delivers a speech at the Vatican on Dec. 19, 2019, during an audience with refugees who'd arrived from the Greek island of Lesbos.
that Syrian refugees posed a security threat because “any one of [them] could be connected to terrorism.”that while individual Christians have a biblical responsibility to be charitable, the government has a different biblically mandated task ― to protect the “safety and security of its people.” “These refugees are people who have followed the legal vetting process in the United States and that President Trump has approved,” Olsonon Friday. “They have been screened and identified by the federal immigration administration and scheduled to arrive this year.”Crux
In response to HuffPost’s questions, John Wittman, a spokesman for Abbott, did not address the governor’s apparent break with Catholic teaching. He emphasized that Abbott’s decision won’t prevent refugees from coming to the U.S. or stop refugees from moving to Texas after initially settling in another state.
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