17 April 2022 | Urbi et Orbi

URBI ET ORBI MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS EASTER 2022

Central loggia of the Vatican Basilica

[…] I hold in my heart all the many Ukrainian victims, the millions of refugees and
internally displaced persons, the divided families, the elderly left to themselves, the
lives broken and the cities razed to the ground. I see the faces of the orphaned
children fleeing from the war. As we look at them, we cannot help but hear their cry
of pain, along with that of all those other children who suffer throughout our world:
those dying of hunger or lack of medical care, those who are victims of abuse and
violence, and those denied the right to be born.
Amid the pain of the war, there are also encouraging signs, such as the open doors
of all those families and communities that are welcoming migrants and refugees
throughout Europe. May these numerous acts of charity become a blessing for our
societies, at times debased by selfishness and individualism, and help to make
them welcoming to all. […]