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.
Guatemala    Latin America ICMC Member denounces increase in abuse, criminalization of migrantsGUATEMALA CITY—Concerned by the increase in kidnappings and extortion against migrants and their families in transit, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Guatemala calls for an “end to incoherent policies,” and urges “greater progress” towards comprehensive migration policies that effectively defend the human rights of migrants and their families.Read more< Latin America Bishops of Central, North America call for regional migration summitTECUN UMAN, GUATEMALA, 10 June 2009 (CNS<) — Bishops from the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Central America called on their governments to convene a regional summit to assess the causes of migration and to work out a regional plan for cooperation on migration and development.Read more< Latin America Migration major force in Americas for years to comeANTIGUA, 4 February 2009 (CNS<)—To escape war and poverty, Latin Americans will continue to flock to neighboring countries and to the United States for work and security, making migration a dominant economic and social force in the Americas for years to come, migration experts said. ICMC Secretary General comments on the important pastoral and social role the Church has to play.Read more<  |
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