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refugee aid Pope John Paul has appealed to peoples and governments around the world to come to the aid of stricken South -East Asian refugees. The Pope praised the actions "already undertaken by some countries as well as by international organisations and many private
initiatives". "But the problem
is
so
great that it is no longer possible to let the burden of it rest only on a few," be said.
it would tow out to 76,000 refugees in the country. "Hundreds of thousands of our brothers and sisters" are fleeing South-East Asia with no place to go," the Pope said, said
sea the
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them in the name of the Lord that every man, every woman, every child in need, is our neighbour," he added. "Parishes, Catholic organisations, religious communities, and Christian families, as well, will find the way 1 to express their charity towards the refugees," he said. -
"Each one should make country is there a personal commitment to that can feel itself outside perform a concrete deed in HUMANITY'S this tragedy?" he asked. the measure of his generosCONSCIENCE A world conference "can ity and of his creativity inmake an appeal to the only be wholeheartedly en- spired by love," the Pope concluded. conscience of humanity that couraged," be added. all assume their part of the The Pope began his ap"The Holy See hopes that responsibility, peoples and peal by mentioning "the governments, in the name such a meeting will lead the drama that is taking place of a solidarity that surpass- governments to make effect- on the distant lands and ive provisions for the weles frontiers, races and ideoseas of South -East Asia, come, transit and definitive logies.' which involves hundreds of settlement of the Indo-Chinthousands of our brothers Pope John Paul called ese refugees," said the and sisters" for an international confer- Pope.
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ity of the Church had alHOMELAND ready performed a "great His plea came before the work of charity and mu"They are in search of a announcement of an inter- tual assistance". homeland, since the coun- P.1 Nations "I rejoice in my heart sponsored conference in Geneva on July 20 to study at this," he said. "But it can, and, I am sure, it the question. wants to do still more," the The Pope was speaking Pope said. at the end of his Wednesday evening general audi"Pastors in their dioceses
The invitation was "a in symbolic initiative support of the work being done in the fields of reconciliation and ecumenism," said the statement.
to solve the refugee prob-
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William Arlow have pledged to work together for peace and regionciliation in Northern Ireland, according to a joint statement. As a symbol of this pledge, Archbishop O'Fiaich invited Canon Arlow to Rome for the consistory at which the archbishop was made a tin said the state cardinal,
ence "as quickly as possible"
"We have a swastlerful God," sudeised Faber Tem PresdiriBe before be eelebrated the first Maas In the new Church of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacra-
"The image of North ern Ireland projected abroad has recently been an unhappy one, due no doubt to the reporting of the troubles as a relig-
ions war in which Protestants and Roman Catholics kill and injure each other," said the Church leaders.
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The U.N. High Commission for Refugees, Mr Poul Hartling, appealed for
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Mr Hartling said that the situation "requires that nations individually and jointly take fundamental and far-reaching decisions to attend, in all respects, to the weedy unfolding before us."
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