#Migrants

Migrant shipwreck in the English Channel. Sarah Teather ( JRS-UK): “How did we reach the point of giving no value to human lives?”

Sarah Teather, Director of the Jesuit Refugee Service in the United Kingdom, firmly denounces last week’s tragic death in the…

Asylum seekers in Lesbos awaiting the Pope. Sant’Egidio: “Approximately 1,700 persons on the island amidst continuing hardships”

The Pope will visit the island of Lesbos on Sunday, December 5 – in the context of his apostolic visit…

Pope in Cyprus. Pizzaballa (Patriarch): “For continued service as a laboratory of dialogue and field hospital”

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, describes the atmosphere in the country looking forward to the papal visit: “A…

Pope Francis in Cyprus. Fr Kraj (Patriarchal Vicar): “7,000 will attend Mass at the stadium. Possible transfer of 50 migrants”

The hours leading up to the arrival of Pope Francis on the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, expected in…

“Boomerang effect and aberration”: the Poland-Belarus wall in the eyes of host communities

“Africa is exemplary in its reception of refugees despite extreme poverty. It’s the continent that builds refugee camps instead of…

Austria: Card. Schönborn (Vienna), “refugees brutally used by Lukashenko as toys”

Belarusian-Polish border crisis: how did it reach this stage?

People are camped on Belarusian territory, guarded by the military. Reports from yesterday, November 18, suggest that the migrants have…

Caritas Poland: “Tents of hope” and humanitarian assistance to migrants. Local border parishes mobilised

Caritas is providing humanitarian assistance on the Polish side of the border through four “Tents of Hope” and local parishes.…

Belarus-Poland: EU Commission, €700,000 in aid for migrants at the border. Lenarcic, “access to humanitarian organisations must be guaranteed”

Poland. Voluntary organisations: “We cannot remain indifferent to the plight of migrants at the borders of our country”

“Regardless of whether they qualify for asylum in Europe or whether they should return to their countries of origin, we…

Lithuania: Bishops’ letter to the faithful, “God can be found in the people at our doors”. Prayers for soldiers and migrants