The International Catholic Migration Commission
serves and protects uprooted people: refugees, internally
displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
serves and protects uprooted people: refugees, internally
displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
Latin America    Fifth regional meeting on migration Latin American Bishops Meet on Migration: “A Global Phenomenon with Pastoral Implications”SANTA DOMINGO, 30 May 2012—Representatives of Bishops’ Conferences from ten (10) countries in Central America, Caribbean, the U.S., and Mexico gathered together in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, for their fifth regional meeting on migration. This annual event works to promote the rights of migrants and evaluate country-specific church responses culminating in a statement which highlights priority needs and calls for action to close protection gaps of migrants.Read more<  Ethiopian Bishops to UN: “The crying voices of migrants in the Sinai are getting louder and louder at our doors”GENEVA, 6 June 2011—Ethiopian Bishops’ Conference Secretary General and ICMC member, Abba Hagos Hayish, made a plea to governments, international organizations and civil society representatives gathered at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, calling for action on behalf of the hundreds of migrants kidnapped and held hostage for ransom in the Sinai desert.Read more< Mexico UNHCR welcomes new refugee law in MexicoGENEVA, 28 January 2011 (UNHCR<)—The UN Refugee Agency welcomes a new law adopted by Mexico on protection of refugee and asylum seekers. The new law was formally signed by President Felipe Calderón on Wednesday, by which the law enters into force.Read more< Mexico Bishop calls Mexicans to welcome refugees and migrantsMEXICO CITY, 13 January 2011 (CNA<)—Auxiliary Bishop Enrique Sanchez Martinez of Durango, Mexico is asking Catholics in his country to be hospitable to immigrants and refugees who enter Mexico through its southern border.Read more< Mexico Latin American migrants in the U.S. condemn massacre against their brothers and sisters in MexicoCHICAGO, 26 August 2010 (NALACC<)—On Wednesday August 24, 2010, news began to come out about one of the worst massacres ever occurred in Mexico, near the border with Brownsville, TX. According to news reports, the 72 bodies discovered were all Latin American migrants, mostly from El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador and Brazil. In response to this abhorrent and sad news, leaders of the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC), the largest umbrella organization of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants in the U.S., issued the following statement.Read more< Mexico Church urges justice for migrants after Mexico massacre, says crime cannot go unpunishedMEXICO CITY, 27 August 2010 (Zenit<)—The Church in Mexico is calling for justice and respect for all immigrants, as authorities in the nation are trying to identify the bodies of 72 Central and South Americans slain as they tried to reach the United States.Read more<  |
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