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 167:   Based on the Vatican II document 
Gaudium et Spes (Church in the world) 
Article 66

 

One point from this article, re migrant workers:

"When workers come from another country or district
and contribute to the economic advancement of a nation or region by their labor,
all discrimination as regards wages and working conditions must be carefully avoided.

Everyone, especially public authorities,
must treat them not as mere tools of production but as persons,
and must help them to bring their families to live with them
and to provide themselves with a decent dwelling;
they must also see to it that these workers are incorporated into the social life of the country or region that receives them. Employment opportunities, however, should be created in their own areas as far as possible"

Migrant workers:
- millions of them from the Philippines, Indonesia, India...
 working in the Middle East, East Asia and many other places

In HK....more than 100,000 from both the Philippines and Indonesia

In China, tens of millions of them from poor rural areas
working in factories of new economic zones

Jesus, please move "public authorities" to treat migrant workers more fairly!

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