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.
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.
RFM – El Salvador held a training and informative meeting on the reality of returned migrants
In this event, we welcomed Rosa María Arias, who currently works as Coordinator in the Center of Attention for returned children and adolescents of the ISNA (Salvadoran Institute for the Integral Development of Children and Adolescents).
The Franciscan Network for Migrants signs a collaboration agreement
With the expectation of improving accompaniment and care of migrants, the Franciscan Network on Migration has formed a partnership with the non-profit organization Talentos in Argentina.
We demand unrestricted respect for the human rights of people in the context of human mobility within Mexican territory
We, the Franciscan Network on Migration (RFM), as well as various groups and civil organizations that defend the human rights of migrants, have monitored the detentions and deportations against people in Mcallen, Texas directed to the El Ceibo, Guatemala border, as well as also from different places in Mexico to Villahermosa and Tenosique, Tabasco
Red Clamor Communiqué on the migratory situation in Mexico
We, the Latin American Church Network and Caribbean Migration, Refuge, Displacement and Trafficking (CLAMOR) of the Latin American Episcopal Council, which brings together more than 600 organizations of the Catholic Church in Latin America and the Caribbean, have seen in recent days the development of the National Institute of Migration and of the National Guard in the south of the Mexican Republic´s operations to contain migrants in the city of Tapachula, Chiapas.