For several years we have been looking for ways to accompany migrant workers who come from Northern and Western states like Odissa and Kharkand to work in Kerala. It is not an easy life and being able to be close to them, especially the young...
To take care of the contemplative dimension of our life, “in order to find God, who emerges in the silence as the center of our very selves” (Decrees). General Congregation XX calls us to enter into a process of deepening and revitalization in our living of...
We are writing to all of you to tell you about the imperative and improvised work camp that was begun in Pedro Abad, the afternoon-night of Sunday, June 14 and will continue until July 31, with Moroccan youth formerly in protected status. It has happened...
From five loaves of bread and two fish, He feeds the five thousand. (Matthew 14:13-21) As a response to the cries of a single mother with two children and to some young Vietnamese trainees and overseas students who have lost their jobs due to the declaration of...
Today, we invite you to watch the second, newly released video, prepared by Migrants and Refugee Section, in which the Holy Father explores the sub-theme “To be close in order to serve”. It offers the real-life testimony of an internally displaced person who describes how the solidarity of generous...
Few women have passed through the Kalakasan migrant centre during the pandemic. They were afraid to leave. But one day Imelda Flores Ishiwata came to talk to us and today she wants to tell her story. She is 51 years old, married to Takahiro Ishiwata, 72,...
By the side of the Northern Highway in Bogotá, dozens of our Venezuelan brothers and sisters hope to find some way to travel to the border city of Cúcuta, and from there to be able to return to their country. This problem has become more acute...
At the end of April and the beginning of May in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, around 300 Peruvians went to the Peruvian consulate in Santiago seeking repatriation. Families with small children, pregnant women who with the distress of being unemployed desperately wanted to...
We share the testimonies of a family and a teacher about the "virtual" celebration of the Feast of Saint Raphaela. There are many more of us! This year, as every 18th of May, we have celebrated a beautiful Eucharist, in which we have participated from different places in Spain,...
When the recent General Congregation, via Decree 2, launched us into the practice of Social Economy in Solidarity which is reflected in concrete choices, we never thought that there would come a time when we would implement these choices during and after a pandemic like the one we...
