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.
Protect Migrants and Refugees during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Slowing the spread of COVID-19 requires that everyone be included in prevention and protection strategies, especially the most vulnerable, including migrants and refugees. This pandemic is a public health crisis that brings home how interconnected we are. It is
our collective responsibility to act rapidly and in solidarity.
Mexico’s detention network is human rights disaster -and U.S. policy is making it worse
On Friday April 3, a fire broke out during a protest in a makeshift facility, located in Piedras Negras, Mexico, which is being used to detain people deported from the United States.
Communique from La 72 migrant and refugee shelter
It is with great pain and rage we denounce and deeply resent the death last March 31, 2020 of a Guatemalan migrant at the Tenosique Migration Station.
Franciscan Network in Honduras Aims to Raise Consciousness and Take Action to Confront the Critical Migration Situation
The Franciscan Network on Migration’s team in Honduras (RFM-Honduras) is composed of Franciscan and other religious and lay people who minister in different areas of the country. Members of RFM-Honduras represent some of the initial organizers of the Network and over the past year they have worked to consolidate their team
Franciscan Network Launches Membership
With our vision to create a network of Franciscans and franciscan-hearted people who are working on migration issues, the Franciscan Network on Migration is pleased to announce the launch of our formal membership.
Migrant Routes of the Americas, More Threatening Every Day
With only a few weeks left to end the year, 2019 is already the deadliest for migrants and refugees in Latin America. A total of 634 have lost their lives, according to the tally by the International Organization for Migration. The largest increase in the number of...
Sharing Wisdom — Guatemala
The team of the Pilgrim House “Santo Hermano Pedro” in Mezquital, Guatemala made two visits in order to encourage, motivate and inform the Franciscan Network for Migrants, in the support and shelter of Honduran and Salvadoran brothers and sisters who are passing...
Report from the Southern Border of Mexico
La 72 Migrant and Refugee Shelter shares this synthesis of what they are experiencing during the last months of 2019, compiled by the Washington Office for Latin American Affairs (WOLA). This report illustrates the migration and refugee situation in the Southern...