#Reception

European elections: Mgr. Hollerich, “with no Papal appeals for reception, outcome would have been worse”. “Populisms have lost where they had responsibility”

Austria: Mgr. Gletter (Innsbruck), “it hurts to hear the government wants to rename reception centres ‘departure centres’”

Migrants: Catholics and Protestants, may the Italian Government promote a “European humanitarian corridor”

Sweden: Christian Churches supporting the converts, demonstrations in many cities. Meeting with Migration Agency today

Sweden: Christian Churches support converts at risk of deportation. Demonstration in Stockholm on 16 January

USA: thousands of migrants held in structures on the Mexican border. Msgr. Seitz (El Paso): “This situation is inhuman, our Government should provide for basic needs”

In detention centres located on border zones populations are overflowing, many undocumented migrants have exceeded the maximum period of detention…

The Netherlands: 400 children risk deportation. Churches mobilise for “Kinderpardon”

Migration: EU Commission, €305 million to Greece, Italy, Cyprus and Croatia. Avramopoulos, “support to Member States under pressure”

Migrants seen from the border of Bosnia-Herzegovina: “We have forgotten that they are human beings.” The photo-story by Lejla Samardzic

She works as a teacher, but photography has always been Lejla Samardzic’s passion. Since migrants arriving into Croatia and Northern…

Migration: Mgr. Hollerich (COMECE), support from the Catholic Church to the Global Compact. “Security and protection to migrants and hosting societies”

Faith communities mobilize in support of migrants on US-Mexico border: “There are no gang members or terrorists in the migrants caravan”

Past Thursday about 200 people – Jews, Muslims and Christians – undertook a joint pilgrimage to the Tornillo detention camp,…