National Migration Week/World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2025

The World Day of Migrants and Refugees (WDMR) is an opportunity for global churches and the Catholic faithful to engage in prayer, reflection, and action on behalf of our brothers and sisters who are forced to flee their homes. The theme for this year's WDMR is Migrants, missionaries of hope which “highlights the courage and tenacity of migrants and refugees, who bear witness daily to hope for the future despite difficulties.”

National Migration Week is a uniquely US-based celebration that builds on the ideas put forward in WDMR and shaped accordingly to American public. This year, National Migration Week takes place September 22-28 and culminates with the World Day of Migrants and Refugees (WDMR). Although WDMR typically occurs on the last Sunday of September, this year it will take place on October 4-5 to coincide with the Jubilee of Migrants.

Pope Leo XIV states, “This link between migration and hope is clearly evident in many contemporary experiences of migration. Many migrants, refugees and displaced persons are privileged witnesses of hope. Indeed, they demonstrate this daily through their resilience and trust in God, as they face adversity while seeking a future in which they glimpse that integral human development and happiness are possible.”

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