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IN-DEPHT STUDY |
| 6 JANUARY – MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD
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They dress as Three Kings, tireless ‘star
singers’ knocking on doors, speaking to families, protagonists
in parishes on one special day dedicated to their less fortunate peers
all over the world who suffer from exploitation, poverty, exclusion.
This is Missionary Childhood Day, the culminating point of a path
of formation animated by missionary activity towards those who are
geographically distant but close in the spirit of initiatives which
are realised with the collection of savings and offerings.
“Children Helping Children” is the slogan which the Pontifical
Society for Missionary Childhood makes resound in every country in
the world, declining it in the thousands of forms which the imagination
of children and their animators transforms in projects of solidarity.
And their hope often succeeds in infecting even adults…
The world of children is full of life. A life which is suffocated,
humiliated, exploited for millions of other children all over the
world.
A people living all over the planet and which is the painful reality
of that “infancy denied” who which we have collected figures
and painful stories. (by Miela Fagiolo D’attilia) |
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| WHERE CHILDREN SUFFER |
Now
instead we wish to stop and listen to the countless little voices
crying from the most hidden corners of the planet.
On the Day when the Pontifical Society for Missionary Childhood
re-proposes the missionary activity of more fortunate children
who feel the duty to help their less fortunate peers, on this
day of festivity and colours, we want to open the door to that
people of millions and millions of children in difficulty, hidden
in the shadows of illegality, frightened by the threat of exploitation,
wounded in heart and body by wars, hungry, without a family.
A people of stray puppies living off refuse dumps in Kenya as
in Brazil. Children who are homeless, living in the streets,
sniffing glue so as not to feel the bite of hunger, easy prey
for delinquency and illegal labour.
What will happen to them?
Will they trust adults ever again?
What is more, will they live to be adults? |
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THE POPE A FRIEND OF CHILDREN