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How can the Gospel be brought to immigrants? The question will be addressed by over 500 participants from dioceses all over Italy at the national conference with the title “All the peoples shall come to You. The mission Ad Gentes in our country”. Promoted – for the first time jointly – by three offices headed […]

In Portugal the Catholic organizations are contesting the new law on immigration approved last week. In a document presented to the President of the Republic on 10 December, the organizations – including the Catholic charity for immigrants run by the Episcopal Conference, Portuguese Caritas, and the Jesuit Service for Refugees – listed a series of […]

Prison may be “an opportunity for Christian and Muslim immigrants to discover compassion and brotherly help”. Convinced of this is Father José Sesma León, director of pastoral care in prisons within the Spanish Episcopal Conference. Father León was one of the participants at the meeting of prison chaplains “Interconfessional relations in prisons. Catholic chaplaincy and […]

“The situation of the migratory phenomenon also concerns a vast country like Russia, which has registered an accentuation of the internal movements of population in recent years”, says Father Michael Ryan, from Ireland, parish priest of the parish of “Our Lady of Hope” in Moscow and president of Caritas in the Russian capital. “It’s very […]

Since 1999, when the European Union acquired a competence in asylum and migration policy with the entry into force of the Treaty of Amsterdam, the Churches in Europe have actively monitored and accompanied the development of a Common European Immigration policy as well as a common European Asylum System. The Churches in Europe have repeatedly […]

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During these first weeks of 2003 one of the issues at the centre of the work of the European institutions concerns immigration and right to asylum. The point of departure for the definition of the new EU policy doesn’tseems to be the clear recognition of people’s right to immigrate. In its session on 12 February […]

“Peace, the gift of God entrusted to the uncertain hands of man, is too great and precious a virtue to be affirmed or ignored according to the indications of party-political alignments. The decision for peace, or God willing, for war, must be made by each person in the tremendous solitude of his own conscience”. That […]

An ecumenical delegation met Clare Short, Secretary of State for international affairs, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on 18 February to express the strong opposition of the Christian Churches to an imminent military attack on Iraq. The delegation, composed of representatives of the Churches of the USA, arrived in London after a lengthy tour […]

“Faced by the increased violence in Israel and in the Palestinian Territories, which fuels feelings of hatred and vendetta, faced by the risks of a war against Iraq, we ask you Lord: give courage and perseverance to those who continue to work for a just peace in the countries of the Middle East and inspire […]

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The European Council, that brings together the Heads of State or Government of the fifteen Member States of the European Union and the President of the European Commission, held, the last 17 february, an extraordinary meeting to discuss, in particular, the crisis over Iraq. Its members also met with the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan […]