The consequences of this state of affairs are to be seen in the festering of a wound which typifies and reveals the imbalances and conflicts of the modern world: the millions of refugees whom war, natural calamities, persecution and discrimination of every kind have deprived of home, employment, family and homeland.
Consectaria eiusmodi rerum status apparent in plaga typica ingravescenti, quae index est perturbationum et conflictationum hominum huius temporis: ipsa dicimus multiplicata iam profugorum centena decies milia, qui ob bella et calamitates naturales et persecutiones, omnisque generis discrimina, sunt domo opere familia patria spoliati.vatican.va vatican.va