The Federation of Young German Catholics (Bdkj) launched a yearly campaign for the social inclusion and homing of refugees, run in all Catholic associations and diocesan groups, which will officially start today. With the motto “The future time. Together for a colourful land”, it will make young Catholics come up with joint initiatives against any form of racism, populism and misanthropy. “As young Catholic associations, we work for an open, sympathetic society”, the national president of Bdkj, Lisi Maier, said at a press conference in Düsseldorf, yesterday. With “The future time”, “we want to make it clear, before the election” (due in September 2017) “how we want our country to be like, in the next four-year term of Parliament, and beyond”. According to Maier, “a sustainable policy cannot be supported by nationalist or misanthropic ideologies”. “Along with as many German children, teenagers and young adults as possible, we want to total 35 thousand hours of work in a year – the federal president, don Dirk Bingener, explains – and 35 thousand hours are equal to about four years, which is the same length as a term of the German Parliament”.