Aiding migrants 'goes against the tide' today, top Jesuit says - Catholic Review

Aiding migrants ‘goes against the tide’ today, top Jesuit says

ROME — Using forced deportations and detainment to deal with migration is “a scandal,” said Jesuit Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits.The Jesuits, the largest men’s religious community in the world, are actively involved with their mission partners in accompanying migrants, refugees and asylum seekers because “this is the message of the Gospel,” he told reporters April 10.“We are not inspired by Kissinger,” the former U.S. secre…

Aiding migrants 'goes against the tide' today, top Jesuit says - Catholic Review

ROME (CNS) — Using forced deportations and detainment to deal with migration is “a scandal,” said Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits. The Jesuits, the largest men’s religious community in the world, are actively involved with their mission partners in accompanying migrants, refugees and asylum seekers because “this is the message of the Gospel,” he told reporters April 10. “We are not inspired by Kissinger,” the former U.S. secr…

Father Arturo Sosa, superior of the Society of Jesus lamented the conditions of opponents detained in Venezuela. The Superior Entry of the Society of Jesus lamented the conditions of opponents detained in Venezuela #10Apr was first published in El Impulso.

The general preposito of the Society of Jesus, the Venezuelan Arturo Sosa, who has led since 2016 one of the religious orders of the Catholic Church and to which Pope Francis belongs, expressed this Thursday in Rome his "pain" for the situation in Venezuela, was critical of the arrest of political prisoners in his prisons and claimed that these are used "as an instrument of politics" of the Venezuelan government. "The government is there by forc…

The general preposito of the Society of Jesus, Venezuelan Arturo Sosa, expressed on Thursday, April 10 in Rome his “pain” for the situation in Venezuela, where “at least 1,000 political detainees in Venezuela in the last year,” and are in prisons where “they are not in better condition than El Salvador’s prisons.” He also regretted that some 250 Venezuelans deported by the United States were sent as part of the new measures of the Donald Trump g…

Father Arturo Sosa, S.J., superior general of the Jesuits, expressed his "pain" for the situation in Venezuela this Thursday in Rome, was critical of the arrest of political prisoners in his prisons and claimed that these are used "as an instrument of politics" of the regime of Nicolás Maduro. "The government is there by force, not by the consensus of the population," said the religious, who remarked to feel "pain" for the situation in his count…