Pope Francis: Care for refugees fleeing ‘viruses of injustice, violence and war’

Vatican City, Nov 12, 2020 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- Pope Francis has urged Catholics to care for people fleeing “the viruses of injustice, violence and war,” in a message marking the 40th anniversary of the Jesuit Refugee Service. 

In a letter posted on the JRS website Nov. 12, the pope wrote that the coronavirus pandemic had shown that all human beings were “in the same boat.”