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Migration with others

THE “BACK DOOR” of PEDRO ABAD opens TO WELCOME YOUNG MIGRANTS/SPAIN

We are writing to all of you to tell you about the imperative and improvised work camp that was begun in Pedro Abad, the afternoon-night

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June 23, 2020
Migration with others

“A bowl of rice, a bowl of love”/japan

From five loaves of bread and two fish, He feeds the five thousand. (Matthew 14:13-21) As a response to the cries of a single mother

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June 22, 2020
Migration resources

migrants WORLD DAY: “To be close in order to serve”

Today,  we invite you to watch the second, newly released video, prepared by Migrants and Refugee Section, in which the Holy Father explores the sub-theme “To be close in

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June 22, 2020
Migration news

Same reality, another look due to the pandemic/japan

Few women have passed through the Kalakasan migrant centre during the pandemic. They were afraid to leave. But one day Imelda Flores Ishiwata came to

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June 20, 2020
Migration news

THE SUFFERING FACES OF OUR VENEZUELAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS/colombia

By the side of the Northern Highway in Bogotá, dozens of our Venezuelan brothers and sisters hope to find some way to travel to the

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June 10, 2020
Migration news

ACCOMPANYING THE TRANSITION OF THOSE WHO LONG TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMELAND/CHILE

At the end of April and the beginning of May in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, around 300 Peruvians went to the Peruvian consulate

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June 10, 2020
Migration news

the “friendly voice” of ana rosa, ACI/peru

We continue in lockdown because of Covid-19, and we are becoming involved in telephone accompaniment to some immigrant families. It has not been difficult to

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May 21, 2020
Migration resources

invisibles, neglected and forgotten

They are invisible; they are neglected and forgotten. That is how Pope Francis refers to the internally displaced in his recently published Message for the

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May 21, 2020
Migration with others

HELPING OURSELVES TO REMAIN IN HOPE

Continuing the work of collaboration with JRS, which we have been doing for more than a year, visiting and accompanying refugees in two of the

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May 20, 2020
Migration with others

a new step of welcoming/usa

At the end of GC XX, Handmaids in the USA searched diligently for a way to intensify our accompaniment of Peoples on the Move. We

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May 14, 2020
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Lord, 🙏 😮 We’ve never seen anything like this. You Lord, 🙏
😮 We’ve never seen anything like this. You enter Jerusalem like a king… on a donkey 🐴
We’ve never seen anything like you,
you move us.
You tell us:
🚫 Do not seek power,
🚫 nor strength,
🚫 nor wealth!
Nothing.

🌿 Your entry into Jerusalem reminds us of what truly matters,
🤍 the love we have for one another,
🤲 mutual help,
👀 the attention we give, …

🐴 The donkey that Jesus chose to ride
reminds me that I am not much,
✨ but above all that I become
through what others make of me:
💞 through their love,
👀 their attention,
😊 their shared joy,
😢 the sorrow we carry together.

🌱 Jesus reminds me to be humble.
To be humus — earth —
🤲 where others can come
👃 and breathe in the scent of welcoming soil,
🌿 that allows growth,
🌸 to flourish,
🌍 to live in the reality of what I live.
#WeAreACI #aci_handmaids #aci_esclavas #Lent2026 #beclosertogod
✨ Yesterday, our sisters Stella and Margaret made ✨ Yesterday, our sisters Stella and Margaret made their final profession 🤍
Like Mary, they said their definitive YES to the Lord.
Today, they are a little more the Handmaids of His Heart.
💫 A yes made of just a few letters…
yet opening to a deep covenant with God,
a promise of faithful love, given forever.
🌿 It is not the promise of a life without difficulties,
but of a life filled with love,
of self-giving and commitment to those most in need.
A life filled with His grace to love and to be loved.
🙏 May the Lord take care of Stella and Margaret each day, so that they may always say YES to His calls.
🕊️ And may the Holy Spirit sustain them at every moment, in joy, fidelity, and peace.
#WeAreACI #aci_handmaids #aci_esclavas #Mary #YES
Mary, 🤍 Today we celebrate you, we celebrate your Mary,
🤍 Today we celebrate you,
we celebrate your YES to the Lord.
A total yes, a yes without conditions.
A yes that opens us to salvation…
🌿 And it is also Lent.
For 5 weeks we have been preparing…
We are approaching the Passion of your Son
and His Resurrection ✨
🏜️ This March 25th is like an oasis in the desert.
You teach us to pause,
to regain strength,
to listen…
👂 And you tell us:
Pray.
Listen to what the Lord is saying to you.
And if He asks something of you…
👉 always say YES.
🕊️ Do not be afraid.
He is always, ALWAYS with you.
🤲 Entrust everything to Him,
without fear,
without “what about me?”
without “what will happen?”
🚶‍♀️ Walk with Him.
He will show you the way.
🤍 Mary, teach me
to have an open heart like yours,
a heart open to God,
ready to do His will.
🌟 Like Christ,
like you Mary,
to say…
🤍 Small “yeses”…
that open the way to greater YES.
✨ Today, your Yes opens ours.
#WeAreACI #aci_handmaids #aci_esclavas #Annunciation #sayyes
✨ Lord, Give me Life … After 4 weeks of following ✨ Lord, Give me Life … 
After 4 weeks of following Jesus…
🤍 Although He knows that Lazarus is sick, strangely, He waits.
⏳ He waits… still.
🚶‍♂️ He lets Lazarus be alone.
❓ But maybe it is necessary… for him? for his loved ones?
🌑 Perhaps there are moments, situations, that we must go through until the end.
🚧 Places where we do not let God enter,
🖤 those places of death within us.
And there… ⚰️ we must consent to die.
🌅 Only then can God come to us…
✨ and make us rise again, like Lazarus.
❓ How often do I ask myself:
“What is God doing?
Why doesn’t He come to help me?”
🙏 And yet… He is there.
🤝 With me.
💔 He suffers with me.
😢 He weeps for my pain.
🕯️ I can ask the Lord:
– 👁️ to show me these places of death
– 🌟 to help me let His light enter
– 🌱 and to bring life back within me ✨
🌿 Have a blessed Lenten week!
#WeAreACI #aci_handmaids #aci_esclavas #Lent2026 #BeCloserToGod
✨ This morning I went for a walk… and I wanted to ✨ This morning I went for a walk… and I wanted to pray.
But all the prayer apps I tried to use stayed silent. 📵
And it felt so in tune with St Joseph…
🤍 A man of silence
👀 A man who watches and is attentive
🕊️ A man who is simply present
So, as I walked, I tried to do the same:
👣 Not looking at my feet… or my phone
👂 Listening to the sounds of the street, the world
🙂 Smiling
💛 Being present to the people I met, really seeing them live
✨ What if this is how we pray today?
🙏 For today, I invite you to:
Take time to
👀 look
👂 listen
🙂 smile
💫 and pray for those you meet
🌿 Happy St Joseph’s Day to everyone!
May we learn from him to care, with discretion and faithfulness, for the people God entrusts to us each day.
#WeAreACI #aci_handmaids #aci_esclavas #SaintJoseph #beattentive
In Santa María de Nieva, the beauty of the Amazon In Santa María de Nieva, the beauty of the Amazon coexists with major challenges. Illegal mining continues to expand, leaving deep scars on the land, in the rivers, and above all, in the lives of local communities. 🌎💔

Learn more about this reality and the commitment rising from the heart of the Amazon in the full video on YouTube (link in bio). 🎥

#Amazonia #Peru #IllegalMining #SantaMariaDeNieva #WeAreACI #aci_sisters #aci_esclavas
✨ What if God were calling you… and you had never ✨ What if God were calling you… and you had never really considered it?
Religious life…
Have you ever wondered if it could be for you?
If that thought has ever crossed your mind…
maybe this advice is for you.
No pressure.
No fear.
Just… dare to ask the question.
✨ Give it a go. Open up the space! God is so much larger!
We continue with Montse and Jessica
in our series of questions about vocation.
💬 “Trying to discern your vocation
is not an obligation…
but it might be for you.”
🙏 Because this is how you can truly discover
what God wants for your life.
And if this question has ever come to your heart…
💭 What if God is calling me to religious life?
Maybe all it takes is simply…
✨ Give it a go.
Try.
Take a step.
#WeAreACI #aci_handmaids #aci_esclavas #Vocation #Looking4God
🌸 Fourth Sunday of Lent – Laetare Sunday ✨ The joy 🌸 Fourth Sunday of Lent – Laetare Sunday
✨ The joy of being saved by Christ!
👁️ In the Gospel (Jn 9), Jesus meets a man blind from birth and gives him sight.
But the real blind ones are those who refuse to believe what they see.
🙏 And me?
What are my blind spots: fears, certainties, resistance?
✨ Today, let Christ touch and heal us.
🌍 Let us also entrust to Him our world, often blinded by power, violence and fear.
🤝 May He make us His collaborators, opening paths of faith, mercy and compassion.
💬 “To encounter Christ and not change is impossible.”
🕊️ How can I live this week a disarmed and disarming peace?
🙏 Lord, open our eyes.
#WeAreACI #aci_handmaids #aci_esclavas #Lent2026 #BeCloserToGod
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February 18, 2026

CALLED TO WALK, SOWING HOPE AND PEACE – Peru–Bolivia Assembly

January 14, 2026

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