by jpic | May 1, 2022 | News, Reflection
Workers’ Day is a memorial date that directly involves men and women who have been forced to migrate from their lands. Every migrant carries the desire to find shelter, work, and land. When I spoke with Carlos, a Venezuelan migrant who arrived in Panama...
by jpic | Apr 5, 2022 | News, Reflection
“Humanity has been on the move since the most ancient times. Some people move in search of new economic opportunities and new horizons. Others do so to escape armed conflict, poverty, food insecurity, persecution, terrorism, or human rights violations and abuses....
by jpic | Mar 13, 2022 | News, Reflection
I want to share the journey we have taken of late, with the intention of involving ourselves as Franciscans in accompanying migrants, and setting up the RFM team in Panama. On March 8, Fr. Jose Olmos, OFM and I visited “Hogar Luisa” Center for Comprehensive...
by jpic | Feb 21, 2022 | News, Reflection
Searching for paths to social justice is placing oneself within the reality of so many people who cry out for it. Only a new and renewed society will be able to work and offer it as the fruit of its conquest. And it is in our environment and society that...
by jpic | Jan 31, 2022 | Reflection
“God was with the midwives, so the people grew and became very strong” Ex 1:20 Honduran hope has a woman’s name: Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, the first woman president of Honduras. In a two-party history, in a violent patriarchy and oppressive militarism, the elected...
by jpic | Jan 24, 2022 | News, Reflection
Christian unity would be the main achievement of showing the world and all cultures that the message of Christ is centered on achieving fullness of life, that is, to live with quality and to be peoples who only seek the full realization of persons together with all...
