Millones de emigrantes cambian el rostro del mundo occidental
Keywords:
Migración e Inter-culturalidad, Iglesia, casa para los sin casa, Migración y transformación cristianismo occidental, Igreja, InterculturalidadeAbstract
La migración es un movimiento permanente en la humanidad, desde Abraham hasta hoy. En algunos momentos de la historia, las migraciones fueron del norte hacia el sur, causadas por las guerras y las crisis económicas en Europa. Pero también se dio durante siglos una expansión colonial violenta, desde Europa hacia África, Asia y América Latina. Hoy las migraciones responden a las catástrofes económicas, políticas y militares provocadas por el norte, el sur y el oriente. Millones y millones de personas migran hacia Europa y EEUU en búsqueda de condiciones mínimas de supervivencia. Si los migrantes son rechazados, los condenamos a una muerte masiva y cruel. Si son aceptados, se hace ineludible una transformación económica, cultural, racial y religiosa en los pueblos que le dieron hospitalidad. El cristianismo mismo, fiel a la tradición de sus orígenes y abierto al diálogo inter-cultural, tendrá necesariamente que aceptar un cambio radical de su propia identidad cultural y religiosa.
Palabras claves: Migración e Inter-culturalidad; Iglesia: casa para los sin casa; Migración y transformación cristianismo occidental
Migration is a permanent movement for Mankind since Abraham until our days. In some moments of history, migrations took place from the North toward the South due to wars and economic crisis in Europe. But, during centuries, a violent colonial violent expansion also took place from Europe towards Africa, Asia and Latin America. Currently, migrations respond to economic, political, and military disasters caused by the North in the South and in the Middle East. Millions and millions of people have migrated towards Europe and the USA searching for minimal life conditions. If immigrants are rejected, we are sentencing them to a massive and cruel death. If they are accepted, an unavoidable economic, cultural, ethnical, and religious transformation takes place for the people who provided hospitality. Christianity itself, faithful to its original traditions and open to intercultural dialogue, will necessarily have to accept a radical change in its own cultural and religious identity.
Keywords: Migration and interculturalism; Church: a home for the homeless; Migration and transformation; Western Christianity.
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