Pope Francis’ prayer intention for June 2024

Pope Francis invites us to pray especially during this month of June for emigrants fleeing wars or hunger and who are forced to make journeys “full of danger and violence,” so that they “find welcome and new opportunities for life” in the countries where they welcome them.

In the video with the prayer intention for the month of June, released this Tuesday through the Pope’s World Prayer Network, the Pontiff invites people to pray especially for those who are forced to flee their country.

“The drama experienced by people forced to abandon their land fleeing wars or poverty is often combined with the feeling of uprooting, of not knowing where one belongs,” says the Holy Father.

Furthermore, he highlights that in some countries of arrival, “migrants are seen with alarm, with fear. Then the ghost of walls appears: walls on the earth that separate families and walls in the heart.”

For this reason, Pope Francis affirms that “Christians cannot share this mentality,” while ensuring that “he who welcomes a migrant welcomes Christ.”

“We must promote a social and political culture that protects the rights and dignity of the migrant. And that promotes them in their development possibilities. And integrate them. A migrant must be accompanied, promoted and integrated,” she says.

Finally, the Holy Father asks to pray “so that migrants fleeing wars or hunger, forced on journeys full of danger and violence, find acceptance and new opportunities in life.”