News and Press Releases
The mission of the Church: Go out to meet the migrant
On Friday, October 8, I participated together with Sister Ludivina Hernández, a member of the Sisters of the Holy Rosary, in the aission organized with Red Clamor Honduras Chapter, near Ocotepeque, Honduras and along the route taken by those who undertake forced migration.
October team building visits
This month the executive secretary of the Franciscan Network on Migration and other team members had the opportunity to visit several of our collaborating organizations in Mexico and the United States.
RFM Mexico Team meets in Cholula, Puebla
In order to consolidate relationships between team members, identify action steps and structure the Mexico team for 2022, the RFM-Team Mexico met on September 27, 28 and 29 at the San Gabriel Convent in Cholula
Saint Francis of Assisi: A brother of men and women on the way
This disciple of Jesus lived and acted in a way that today gives us a light for these times of structural injustice that produces large impoverished majorities, destruction of our common home, and violence against the innocent. It therefore generates a large number of forced migrants to leave their “homeland”.
Leadership as Service: members of the RFM were trained with a diploma course of CEBITEPAL – CELAM
In August we had the pleasure of being part of the “Leadership and Community Development” course given by CIBETEPAL-CELAM. More than 50 laity, religious, priests and bishops participated with the purpose of growing in our leadership to serve our communities.
Pope Francis urges all to move ‘towards an ever wider ‘we’’ ahead of World Day of Migrants and Refugees
Since 2019, natural disasters have displaced nearly 35 million people around the world as the climate crisis has worsened.
Where we are?
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Volunteer Opportunities
Understanding, building and growing the Network
Program Focus
Capacity-Building
Members of the Network are already providing a myriad of resources to migrants. Network members will be able to enhance each other’s work by sharing information and resources via different media (bulletins, meetings and gatherings, capacity-building seminars, resource and route maps, threat advisories, etc.) that they can then pass on to migrants in their care along the route.s.
Support and Protection
Members of the Network will foster the establishment of migrant centers, shelters and houses of refuge in areas where there is a lack of resources by connecting donors to new and ongoing programs.
Advocacy and Collaboration.
Fidelity to the Gospel message compels us to not only to recognize the face of Christ in the poor and the excluded, but also to engage in a social analysis to identify the processes of impoverishment and exclusion e.g. root causes, agents, victims, mechanisms and consequences.
