Since November 25 we again hosted a 25 year old Eritrean refugee coming from a camp in Ethiopia, where she had lived for almost 2 years. We will call her Assa.[1] Now that war had also broken out there, they have again opened the humanitarian...
There are many stories of returnees and their reasons for returning. In this simple article. I would like to share the story of one family that just returned 1or 2 years ago. The parents are 53 years old. They have 6 children, 4 girls and two...
On Jan 6, 2021 supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building, on the false claims of voting fraud, as the US Congress voted to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. The Trump-incited insurrection has shaken us all to the core, even though it was entirely...
We have celebrated past Christmas expanding the "we". In the school community of Ituzaingo we have welcomed an Armenian family and in Las Tunas three family groups from Venezuela. And the "we" has included a whole network of organizations and people. We experience Hope … Conztanza...
Typhoon Rolly was the strongest typhoon in the Philippines this year, making four landfalls and leaving people dead, while causing damage to agriculture and infrastructure. Only a week later, Typhoon Ulysses caught everyone by surprise; it battered the Island of Luzon, leaving many provinces and...
During these last months, here in Spain there is news of the tragic situation of the migrants who try to come to the Canary Islands. Many of them die in the boats, others, who manage to arrive, are kept crowded together at the embankment of...
Sloterdijk, a German philosopher of the twentieth century, argues that the beginning of all life stories begins with the absence of the protagonist or at least, with the absence of the memory of having been present. "We came to life with the first act begun"...
For the 106th Day of Migrants and Refugees, after a community discernment about what sign would be an eloquent way to express the profound love, respect and recognition that we have for our immigrant brothers and sisters, and the reflection of the message of Pope...
The pandemic and the lockdown has dealt a harsh blow to the economy of the country, and those most affected have been the immigrants. They were soon left unemployed, and therefore, without any way of subsistence. Many gathered in front of their embassies to ask...
We share in first person the testimony of Miguel, a young man from Venezuela who is being supported from the School of Bogota. I decided to begin to save to leave Venezuela in August of 2017, 8 months before beginning my journey to Colombia. The reasons...
