Jasmine (fictitious name), 50 years old, a single parent divorced from a Japanese man, has two children. The elder is a girl 16 years old, in the 4th year of junior high school, and the younger a boy 13 years old, a grade 6 student;...
Venezuela in Chaos, a Stream of Flights under Pressure In recent years, the political and economic crisis and the flagrant violation of human rights have forced more that 4.6 million people to flee Venezuela. This phenomenon of displaced persons is the second largest forced migration...
The life of returnee children from Cambodia in Tan Bien, Vietnam. It has been almost a year since we began the experience in Tay Ninh. In a short time, we have initiated quite a few services here, such as teaching English, Math and Vietnamese in the...
FICONPAZ (Foundation Institute for Building Peace) is a children’s movement SEMBRADORES DE PAZ (SOWERS OF PEACE) of the Archdiocese of Bogotá. In Caracolí it was begun with adolescents who received Confirmation in November, 2019, and a girl who made her First Communion. Other adolescents have...
Walking through the town, we met up with Nimer, a young man, dark skinned, thin, polite, humble, smiling, who looked at us hopefully. He had just come back from Venezuela, with his wife and three-year-old son. She was not with him at that moment because...
A few months ago we shared from Sangmelima how we had prepared the school community to accept the new students who had been displaced by the war in our country. Today we hear from a teacher also who was displaced and who has become part...
A group of students from the second year of secondary level wanted to learn about the reality of Ceuta. Last January 24 we took a ferry from Algeciras to that city. At that point we were not aware of how easy it was for us...
On the long weekend, from August 15 to 18, a group of 8 religious, from different congregations, and two lay people, we ventured into the beautiful inter-congregational mission among the migrant brothers and sisters. During the previous weeks, we were preparing the heart and, under the...
