National Migration Week

National Migration Week 2021 takes place September 20-26 and will climax with the Vatican’s celebration of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, which always falls on the last Sunday of September. The primary theme for this year’s WDMR is “Towards an ever wider ‘we’”. In his letter announcing this year’s theme, Pope Francis emphasized that “this focus calls on us to ensure that ‘after all this, we will think no longer in terms of ‘them’ and ‘those,’ but only ‘us” (Fratelli tutti, no. 35). And this universal us must become a reality first of all within the Church which is called to cultivate communion in diversity.

Click here to access the National Migration Week toolkit from Migration and Refugee Services for the USCCB