” “”Giving priority to the migrants’ pastoral on a local and international scale; engaging in an intensive training and integration work; taking care of contacts between countries of origin and destination countries; finding staff for the immigrants’ pastoral and cooperating with different parish churches”: these are "the big pastoral challenges of migration", as shown by the VI Meeting of the Presidents of the Bishops Conference of south-eastern Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Greece, Bishops Conference of SS. Cyril and Methodius of Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia, Romania), which, along with the Catholic Bishops of Greece, met in Corfu in the last few days. At the meeting, promoted by the Council of the European Bishops Conferences (Ccee), the Secretary of the Papal Council for Peace and Justice, mgr. Giampaolo Crepaldi, presented the Digest of the Social Doctrine of the Church (October 2004), which is targeted to priests, catechists and laymen working in politics and social issues. "The real news to hold back injustice, poverty, social inequality said Mourtzanos Themistoklis, an Orthodox theologian, – flows out of the union with God and among us”. The phenomenon of migration (33 million migrants in the Old Continent) dramatically affects all the countries of south-eastern Europe: the bishops concluded that "it must not remain a problem but must become an opportunity”; because of this, “a work of ecumenism and cooperation among different churches and communities is urgently needed”.” “
