by jpic | Mar 21, 2021 | News, Reflection, Reflexión
“The human environment and the natural environment are degraded together” (LS 48) As human beings, our very existence depends on the planet we inhabit, where everything is connected and integrated into one single community of life. For this reason, what we do to...
by jpic | Mar 21, 2021 | News, Reflexión
Today, March 21, marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. An important place to focus on in this work is U.S. immgration policy, which targets Haitians and migrants from other majority black countries for highly discriminatory...
by jpic | Mar 13, 2021 | Formation, News
“All migrants are the same” The individual stories of migrants are often unheard, and the public remains largely unaware of what drove them to leave their homes. Instead, government officials, the media, and others have at times broadly portrayed foreigners, including...
by jpic | Mar 8, 2021 | News, Reflection
“We must confront a dictatorship based on different forms of domination. It is not only predatory capitalism, not only racism that has also been strengthened in this dictatorship, but also the patriarchy.” Berta Cáceres In the question of migration there...
by jpic | Feb 12, 2021 | Formación, Formation, News
Franciscans launch an advocacy diagnosis examining Central American exodus caravans, Covid-19, and massive human rights violations. Every year, more than 300,000 people attempt to reach the United States from countries in Northern Central America. Driven from their...
by jpic | Feb 10, 2021 | Encuentro, Meeting, News
Franciscans International will launch a new diagnosis on migration in Northern Central America, Mexico and the United States. This work is the result of a close cooperation between Franciscans International and the Red Franciscana Para Migrantes, combing a review of...
