The latest encyclical of Pope Francis calls for a more just, more human, and more fraternal world based on love and mutual enrichment rather than suspicion and cold indifference, says Cardinal Michael Czerny in the following article. Taking up this call is not optional, for only a culture that gratuitously
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 foreseeable. To be sure,
The International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking 2021 brings intothe spotlight one of the main causes of human trafficking: the dominant economic model ofour time, whose limits and contradictions are exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. MATERIALS. PRAYER, POSTER, SOCIAL MEDIA… Human trafficking is an integral part of
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 di Primio, aci VIDEO
“I bring you good news, a great joy for all the people: Today in the city of David , is born unto you a Savior.” (Luke 2: 10-11) Last September when we commemorated the World Day for Migrants and Refugees with the theme: “Like Jesus Christ, forced to flee,” we
This Sunday advent begins and we want to share a proposal from the MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES SECTION. Here are two novel ways to help you continue carrying out Pope Francis’s message for the 2020 World Day of Migrants and Refugees during Advent. The first is a calendar to use in your home, parish, community,
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 areas in Metro Manila submerged
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 the harbor. From Valladolid, in
The Jesuit Refugee Service was founded by Fr Pedro Arrupe SJ, then Superior General of the Society of Jesus, on 14 November 1980. 40 years later, JRS continues to promote his ministry of “being with rather than doing for” our refugee sisters and brothers throughout the world. To commemorate JRS’s 40th
On November 4, we shared the joy of opening the doors of the Pastoral de Movilidad Humana office in Curicó, with the participation of priests, members of the Pastoral de Movilidad Humana (PMH), migrants and representatives of the Curican municipality. READ +
