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 talk to us and today she wants to tell her story. She is 51 years old, married to Takahiro Ishiwata, 72,...
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 border city of Cúcuta, and from there to be able to return to their country. This problem has become more acute...
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 in Santiago seeking repatriation. Families with small children, pregnant women who with the distress of being unemployed desperately wanted to...
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 notice how important it is to have a "friendly voice" in the midst of so many threatening voices that give rise to insecurity. Sr....
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 World Day of Migrants and Refugees, which accompanies in its subject matter the recent Guide published by the Dicastry for Human Development’s Section of Migrants...
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 main centers on the outskirts of Dublin, our specific presence has also had to adapt itself to this time of insecurity and lockdown. In...
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 were committed to networking with other religious communities and with other organizations, both Catholic and non-Catholic. Since November 2017, along with the Sisters of St...
In Vietnam, as in other places around the world, we have been keeping “social distance” and wearing masks to avoid getting infected with coronavirus. We, the sisters in the experimental community in Tay Ninh, near the Cambodian border, have returned to Ho Chi Minh City because we were...
A short article to tell you about how some immigrant families are entering our daily lives. Tierra Amarilla is a community established in the center of Atacama, which contains a succession of small villages that go up the mountain along the Copiapó River bed – a vast area that...
We present a brief video in which, Sr. Constanza Diprimio, aci who is very much involved with Migrants and Refugees from the Episcopal Delegation of Migrants in Argentina, briefly situates us in front of the reality that the most vulnerable people are suffering during this...
