Spanish bishops believe that immigration is not the problem, but the “main solution”
The director of the Migration Department of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, Xabier Gómez, argued on Tuesday that immigration is not the country’s main problem, as the latest CIS barometer suggests, but rather it is the “main solution.”
At the presentation of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, which will be celebrated next Sunday, September 29, the religious leader has been questioned about the debate about the binding reception of migrant minors arriving in the Canary Islands and, in this sense, he has said that “it is very necessary or convenient to de-ideologize everything that concerns migrations.”
“God is with our migrants and, therefore, if God is with our migrants, it follows that we cannot, as Pope Francis said, think that God is with those who reject migrants,” he noted, before inviting people not to fight “against the poor,” but “against poverty.”
In July, the spokesman for the Episcopal Conference, César García Magán, attacked the “ideological demagogy” of linking, as the extreme right is doing, “immigration and crime.”
However, in recent months there have been several xenophobic statements from the Catholic hierarchy, such as those made in May by the Archbishop of Oviedo, Jesús Sanz Montes, or in June by the Bishop of Alicante, José Ignacio Munilla.
With information from EFE.
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