Online interview – August 19,2020 Chantal Background Chantal (not her real name), 35 years old, married to a Japanese for almost 10 years, lives in Osaka, Japan. She is the eldest of 4 siblings. Her family lives in a rural area in one of the islands in...
A different summer, a call to Serve Together. Loyola University, the San Hipolito Center (Jesuits), and the Sacred Heart School (Handmaids) of Cordoba joined together, enthusiastically accepting the SJV2020 proposal. In the midst of the de-escalation of the lockdown, wanting to reach out to the...
Today, we invite you to watch the fourth, newly released video, in which the Holy Father explores the sub-theme “To share in order to grow”. It offers the real-life testimony of an internally displaced person who describes how sharing makes us more human, makes us believe more in...
On July 6 we began the volunteer program Servir Juntos 2020 (Serve Together 2020) in collaboration with Atalaya Intercultural in Burgos, with children of immigrant parents. Some of the children are already Spanish, but there are other more recent arrivals who don’t know our language...
Today, we invite you to watch the third, newly released video, in which the Holy Father explores the sub-theme “To listen in order to be reconciled.” It offers the real-life testimony of an internally displaced person that explains how teamwork and mutual acceptance can create a brighter future and...
OUR DEAR IMMIGRANTS, MAINLY FROM VENEZUELA, ARE GOING THROUGH A DREADFUL TIME DURING QUARANTINE! Yes, the very small amount of money that they have been able to earn by their work, is all used up because of the Covid19 pandemic; and many of them have been...
Seven years ago, when the newly elected Pope Francis visited Lampedusa after the shipwreck and death of almost 300 migrants, he shook us by saying that "the globalization of indifference has taken away our ability to cry”. This trip probably had much to do with...
The opening of the time of confinement must have left us with a more attentive gaze. We found a family living on the river bed. Naroman* is the woman who was trying to make a living by filtering sand from the river. The husband sleeps...
Here in Vietnam, 3 months after the end of the quarantine by May 11 in the midst of Covid -19, life almost gets back to “normal”. Churches filled with the congregations; companies, restaurants, bars open; kids go back to school, public transportations are once again...
Home health aides are also in danger of catching the coronavirus, because the majority of them take care of elderly people who are worn out and worn down by the weight of years, and in some cases have serious illnesses. Elderly people require infinite respect,...
