[caption id="attachment_20386" align="alignright" width="250"] A volunteer from a humanitarian organization embraces refugee children during a police operation at a makeshift camp in the Greek village of Polykastro. Offering migrants and refugees truly helpful and loving hospitality is the greatest guarantee against terrorism, Pope Francis said. (CNS photo/Nikos Arvanidtis, EPA) See POPE-REFUGEES-JESUITS Sept. 19, 2016.[/caption]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Offering migrants and refugees truly helpful and loving hospitality is the greatest guarantee against terrorism, Pope Francis said.
The current refugee and migration crisis, with more than 65 million people forcibly displaced from their homes, has become "the greatest humanitarian crisis after the Second World War," he said.
"At this place and time in history, there is great need for men and women who hear the cry of the poor and respond with mercy and generosity," he told graduates of Jesuit schools and universities during an audience at the Vatican Sept. 17.
The alumni are members of the World Union and the European Confederation of Jesuit Alumni; they were in Rome taking part in a conference on the migration and refugee crisis.
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