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Catholic Charities has
a long tradition of service to the immigrant based on the call of Scripture:
"If strangers live with you in your land, do not molest them. You must
count them as one of your own and love them as yourself—for you were once
strangers yourselves in Egypt. I am Yahweh your God." (Leviticus 19; 33-34)
"Unity in diversity is the vision that we bishops, as
pastors of the Church in the United States, offer to our people as they welcome
the new immigrants and refugees who come to our shores…This diversity of
ethnicity, education, and social class challenges us as pastors to welcome these
new immigrants and help them join our communities in ways that are respectful of
their cultures and in ways that mutually enrich the immigrants and the receiving
Church." (Unity
in Diversity: Welcoming the Stranger Among Us, by U.S. Catholic
Bishops, Nov. 2000)
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