ABSTRACT
This chapter will focus on how the creation of safe places where children are welcomed, encouraged, and challenged to become responsible, joyful, and hope-oriented young people, based on holistic ministry (as it is stated in Witness to Jesus Christ art. 3), and where leadership in the context of development/humanitarian work is committed to Jesus Christ and his relationship with the children (Matt 19:14), is an incarnational act that reflects God’s love and the mission of the Church. This chapter will also examine examples in Bosnia and Herzegovina where the Youth Centre John Paul II works with mostly non-Christian children and youth on the move, as well as with children without parental care from different religious backgrounds or those who are secular. The theological background of this chapter refers to the Teaching of the Catholic Church on the mercy of God, the sense of going out to those in need regardless of their religion; witnessing God’s love, Pope Francis; and Catholic social teaching.
