Migrants needed as Italians don't have kids says pope

They are teachers of hope, they seek America and do not give up

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Oct 28 2024
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Migrants needed as Italians do

Migrants are needed in Italy because Italians are not having enough children, Pope Francis said Monday.
    "Today many countries need migrants. Italy does not have children, it does not have children. The average age is 46.
    Italy needs migrants and must welcome them, accompany them, promote them and integrate them. We must tell this truth," Francis said while receiving the Scalabrinians in audience.
    The pope, whose birth name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio as he is descended from Italian immigrants to Argentina, defined migrants as "teachers of hope." He said: "I am the son of migrants, and at home we have always experienced that sense of going there to make America, to progress. They leave hoping to 'find their daily bread elsewhere', as St. John Baptist Scalabrini said, and they do not give up, even when everything seems to be going against them".