{"id":3021,"date":"2017-08-31T14:14:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T03:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stbridgetsgreythorn.org.au\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2017-08-31T20:46:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T09:46:57","slug":"migrants-and-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/migrants-and-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrants and Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS year&#8217;s theme chosen by Pope Francis is: Child Migrants, the vulnerable and voiceless\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1377\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stbridgetsgreythorn.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/pope-audience.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1377\" src=\"http:\/\/stbridgetsgreythorn.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/pope-audience-300x283.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Francis at audience \" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/pope-audience-300x283.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/pope-audience.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis at audience<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pope Francis said recently \u201cI am compelled to draw attention to the reality of child migrants, especially those who are alone\u2026 they are children, they are foreigners, and they have no means to protect themselves\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Today, migration and refugees affect all countries and is growing into a tragic situation of global proportions.\u00a0 Migrants and refugees leave their homeland in search of a better and safe life, however, they face the difficult experience of migration, rejection and often hatred all over again.<\/p>\n<p>As Christians we are called to reach out to and pray for all migrants and refugees to emphasise the unity of the human family and the Gospel values of acceptance, hospitality and love of neighbour.<\/p>\n<h5>Remember the words of Jesus: <strong><em>\u201cWhoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but the one who sent me.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>Mk 9:37, Lk 9:48<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS year&#8217;s theme chosen by Pope Francis is: Child Migrants, the vulnerable and voiceless\u201d. Pope Francis said recently \u201cI am compelled to draw attention to the reality of child migrants, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastoral-messages"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}