EUROPE/ITALY - Scalabrinians: humanitarian shame in the Mediterranean demands a response from the States

Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The humanitarian shame of the new migrants who died in the Mediterranean places national States before their own responsibility to respond to their cry for help. We cannot turn around thinking that the only emergency today is the Covid pandemic. The social and economic crisis, violence continue to occur daily in every corner of the planet. To witness, almost indifferently, another shipwreck in the Mediterranean, in a world that should be more supportive because it is engaged in the same battle against the pandemic, means having lost to globalization the values of the identity of Europe, a continent where many have always found space to fulfill themselves as people". This was stated by Sister Neusa de Fatima Mariano, Superior General of the Missionary Sisters of San Carlo Borromeo-Scalabrinians, in a note sent to Agenzia Fides referring to Pope Francis' speech during the Regina Coeli on April 25. "The strategy for a policy that can prevent more hecatombs was launched three years ago by Pope Francis and is all too clear: welcome, protect, promote, integrate - adds Sister Neusa -. We join the heartfelt voice of the Pope: strengthen humanitarian corridors, strengthen international cooperation networks, promote the strengthening of agreements with those who, by vocation and charisma, openly and freely support migration policies. We also address a thought to Nadia De Munari, the lay missionary brutally murdered with a machete in Peru. We offer our prayers for this climate of hatred that adds to the tragedies of the Mediterranean to stop. Let's not let this appeal sink along with the last 130 deaths". (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 28/4/2021)

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