ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIAL LETTERS BY THE AMBASSADORS OF TANZANIA, LESOTHO, PAKISTAN, MONGOLIA, DENMARK, ETHIOPIA AND FINLAND ACCREDITED TO THE HOLY SEE

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Among the most pressing of the humanitarian issues facing the international
community at present is the need to welcome, protect, promote and integrate all
those fleeing from war and hunger, or forced by discrimination, persecution, poverty
and environmental degradation to leave their homelands. As I had occasion to
reiterate in my Message for this year’s World Day of Peace, this problem has an
intrinsically ethical dimension that transcends national borders and narrow
conceptions of security and self-interest. Notwithstanding the complexity and
delicacy of the political and social issues involved, individual nations and the
international community are called to contribute as best they can to the work of
pacification and reconciliation through decisions and policies marked above all by
compassion, foresight and courage. […]