Collection from Mexico Papal Masses to Fund Migrant Centers That May Discourage Dangerous Trek to US Border

By Published on January 9, 2016

Funds raised during the collection in Pope Francis’ public Masses in Mexico have a special destination: they will be used to build two new welcoming centers for the country’s large influx of immigrants.

“On the occasion of the Extraordinary Holy Year of Mercy we have decided to open two new welcoming centers for immigrants: one at the border with Mazapa (de Madero) and another in Salto de Agua,” Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel said a Dec. 30 interview with Zenit news agency.

“I told the Pope that the collection we are doing for the visit, in agreement with the Episcopal Conference, will be destined for the construction of these two new structures. It is what we will symbolically deliver in the collection of the Mass.”

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