#Migrants

Shipwreck in Greece. Alverti (Caritas Hellas): “How could this have been possible? What has happened is all the more shocking because they could have been saved.”

In an interview with SIR, Maria Alverti, director of Caritas Hellas, commented on the dramatic shipwreck in Greece last week…

World Refugee Day: Mijatovic (Council of Europe), “serious human rights violations against refugees”

Persons deprived of liberty. Palma (Guarantor): “Alternative and community-based measures did not decrease prison population”

The Guarantor voiced concern over the high number of suicides in 2023, numbering a total of 29, along with 12…

Cyprus: Fr Varriano (Patriarch Vicar), “the separation wall does not constitute a limitation”

The Symposium ‘Rooted in Hope’, promoted by R.O.A.C.O. (Assembly of Organizations for Aid to the Oriental Churches), took place in…

Council of Europe: call on Lithuania. “Do not push back people in need of international protection”. Human rights violations

Migrants and refugees. Centro Astalli, “Italy has not learned from experience with Ukrainians and fails to move beyond the emergency approach”

The 2023 Annual Report of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Italy ‘Centro Astalli’, presented today in Rome, shows that as…

Migrants: Italian government declares a state of emergency. Green light to the Economic and Financial Document (DEF)

Italy’s Council of Ministers announced a state of emergency “in connection with the sharp rise in migrant flows into the…

Synod. Bishop Baturi: “We want to engage in dialogue and be open to the world”

Migration – notably the tragedy in Cutro – the surrogacy controversy and registration of children of same-sex parents. These were…

Ireland: Mgr Martin (Armagh), St Patrick’s experience “challenges us to listen out for the cry of the poor, the ordeal of the migrant”

United Kingdom: mgr. McAleenan (Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales), “the new legislation treats migrants as a problem, not as brothers”

Card. Zuppi: “Between Benedict XVI and Francis there is a strong continuity, only an attitude of welcome paves the way for the future”

“We must not proceed in random order. Making Jesus the focal point of our lives, devoting our attention to the…