by jpic | May 21, 2022 | News, Reflection
This May 21 is “The Celebration of World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development.” This celebration refers us to the migratory reality as a bearer of cultural diversity. In this writing we will reflect from a biblical, socioeconomic, and...
by jpic | May 8, 2022 | News, Reflection
In May, the celebration of Mother’s Day is combined with the Marian month that we Catholics celebrate. For the past several decades in these lands of Central America, mothers have lived the experience of uprooting that comes from separation from loved ones....
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...
