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Christian Unity, Human Solidarity
The ecclesial division, inequality, and social inequity generated by the hegemonic neoliberal system continue to create marginalized and discarded victims; among these victims and discarded are forced to migrate
A Migrant’s Hope
As the minutes, hours, and days go by in the migrants, love-made hope is emerging from within them. Those feelings that disrupt the human being and that, at the same time, are part of the human being as a whole and go together with the other noble feelings of struggle, resistance, solidarity, compassion, and hope.
“The Word became flesh…” and God became a migrant …
This Christmas, we unite ourselves to the wishes of each migrant who carries in a backpack a burden of hope and a hunger for justice
Solidarity is the strength of the excluded
On 20 December, the United Nations commemorates the International Day of Human Solidarity, which seeks to reaffirm the commitment of nations to build a world of greater solidarity and peace, respecting diversity and promoting initiatives aimed at reducing poverty. However, how can we talk about solidarity when every day we see the success of individualism and injustice towards migrants in the media and in the homes, shelters, refuges and canteens for migrants?
“My father was a wandering Aramaic, who went down to Egypt and went to take refuge there with a few people” Dt 26.6
Christian believers have a biblical heritage, marked by migration or displacement of families and peoples. From chapter 12 of the book of Genesis a whole story of migration begins
New section on the Franciscan Migrant for Network website
“Para Migrantes” brings resources and advice to people on the journey, in the hopes that we can help reduce some of the risks involved in migration and mitigate some of the potential for harm on the way.
Where we are?
Learn about our shelters and teams
Iniciatives
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.
