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...
The Handmaids of the United States have been involved in projects in El Salvador for more than 15 years. From these experiences and the migration reality that we are living with the current Administration in our country we want to echo a report that reveals...
I want to tell you about Laye and Jordi. This is a case where the words of Pope Francis in 2018 for the Day of the Immigrant have been fulfilled: WELCOME, PROTECT, PROMOTE AND INTEGRATE. Laye is a sub-Saharan boy from Conakry, Guinea, who came to...
Refoulement (expulsion) - Also known as "deportation" or, in some cases, "expulsion", refoulement is the act by which, under an order of deportation, expulsion or refoulement, a State compels an alien to leave its territory and returns him or her to his or her country...
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...
The Synod for the Amazon has published its Final Document and we want to echo it. From n. 12 in which it is asked to specifically address the phenomenon of migration, 12. The phenomenon of migration must be addressed. There are three simultaneous migratory flows in...
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...
