“tents have sprung up on the square in front of the Church of Santa Cruz y la Soledad in the heart of Mexico City. Their occupants are migrants on a long journey to the United States, taking advantage of this crucial pit stop.”
“It's often said that PP. doesn't waver when he is committed to an idea... the case with the fate of migrants, which is one of the priorities of his pontificate. PP. once again demonstrated this on Oct 19, when he gathered all Synod participants to a "moment of prayer for migrants/refugees".”
A year on from the Russian invasion, there are eight million Ukrainian refugees across Europe, 160,000 of them in the UK. From London to Liverpool to Glasgow – and in towns and villages in-between – the mission of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is to reach beyond its faithful.
“But the last-minute decision to call off the trip to Florence was also due to the fact that certain people had been invited to the Mediterranean meeting who were deemed undesirable by the pope.”
“The Vatican announced on Tuesday that Pope Francis has sent €100,000 to Caritas Poland "to help groups of migrants stranded between Poland and Belarus". The gesture comes at a time when a migration crisis between the two Eastern European countries has been raging for several months. ”
“Joan Rosenhauer is the executive director of Jesuit Refugee Service/USA. She leads the organization's efforts in the United States to accompany, serve, and advocate for refugees and displaced people in over fifty countries around the world. ”
“In annual address to ambassadors, Francis shares concerns for humanity: vaccines, migrants, proliferation of weapons, education and, for the first time, "cancel culture"”
“"Let us not permit this 'sea of memories' to be transformed into a 'sea of forgetfulness'. Please brothers and sisters, let us stop this shipwreck of civilization!" the pope thundered.”
“Pope Francis begins a five-day journey to Cyprus and Greece on Thursday, a trip he hopes will help refocus the world's attention on the plight of migrants. The papal visit, which extends through next Monday, includes stops in Nicosia and Athens. The pope, who turns 85 on December 17”
“Nour Essa, one of 16 refugees Pope Francis brought back from Lesbos in 2016, is now a biologist at the Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital near the Vatican”
“Pope Francis, following the recitation of the Angelus prayer on the First Sunday of Advent, prayed for the thousands of migrants who risk their lives every day as they embark upon journeys in search of a better life. ”
“Twenty-seven people died on Wednesday when their boat sank while they were trying to cross from France to England. Our consciences are struck by their deaths. These men and women were looking for a better future. Yet they drowned as if they were runaways, delinquents.”
“Thousands of asylum-seeking migrants stranded in freezing temperatures at the borders between Belarus and Poland, Lithuania, Latvia are in dire need of basic life-saving shelter and medical aid, according to Caritas Europa, the Catholic humanitarian agency.”
“The psychologist, who volunteers at the Migrant Hostel in the city, went to check up on a Jesuit priest and two Caritas workers who are nearly a month into a hunger strike in solidarity with Calais' distraught migrant community.”
“a religious priest, Fr. Olivier Maire, was killed by a Rwandan asylum seeker, whom he was hosting in his home and whose needy situation he had taken to heart. The victim, 60 years old, was ordained priest in 1990 after studying biology, belonged to the Montfortian Congregation. ”
“Caritas Venezuela is making people aware of the grim reality of the complex humanitarian emergency in the country, where the price of a cup of coffee increased by 2,597 percent from August 2020 to August 2021, according to Venezuela Café Con Leche Index, set up Bloomberg media agency. ”
“Mexico in Feb 2016, he replied to a Q about the campaign for the presidency of the United States and Donald Trump’s proposed completion of the wall between the United States and Mexico, saying: “A person who thinks only of building walls, and not of building bridges, is no Christian.””
“With more than 5.9 million Venezuelans reported to have left the country, Caritas Ecuador and Caritas Brazil have started a digital platform aimed at migrants from the South American nation looking for reliable information.”
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Expulsion of migrants from the United Kingdom, a winning bet for Rwanda
Historic church in Mexico City transformed into a migrant camp
Pope places migrants at the center of the synod
How the Ukrainian Catholic Church is fulfilling its mission to refugees, one year on from the invasion
Pope Francis' very political knee pain
Pope gives Caritas cash to help migrants stuck at Poland-Belarus border
Welcoming the Stranger
Pope condemns "cancel culture", backs vaccines in state of the world address
Pope’s cry in Lesbos: "Let's stop this shipwreck of civilization!"
Pope seeks to refocus world attention on migrants during trip to Cyprus and Greece
Ex-refugee from Lesbos now working in Rome, thanks to the pope
At start of Advent, pope prays for migrants
Dignity for migrants
Caritas pleads for help to save migrants on Belarus borders
I don't want to die in this church
The Martyrdom of Fr. Olivier Maire - LA CIVILTÀ CATTOLICA
Venezuela Church leaders highlight challenges facing refugees
More Walls between People - LA CIVILTÀ CATTOLICA
Caritas supports Venezuelan migrants
