It is not just about migrants. It’s also about our fears.

"The ugly cruelty of our time tempts us to abandon any dream of freedom. And so we close in on...

30 April, 2019

20 Action Points for the Global Compacts

What about the laws and policies which govern human mobility in your own country and all over the world? Take...

11 March, 2019

20 Pastoral Action Points

Depending where you live, you may find refugees and migrants arriving, leaving, passing through, settling, and even returning to their...

11 March, 2019

“It is not just about migrants”. That’s the WDMR2019 theme

The World Day of Migrants and Refugees will be celebrated on Sunday 29 September 2019. The theme of this 105th...

05 March, 2019

Pastoral Orientation on Human Trafficking

Migrant smuggling often leads to the crime of human trafficking. Many adults, in their attempt to escape war or natural...

04 March, 2019

The Pope Video against Human Trafficking

There are issues where you are morally obligated to take a side, such as human trafficking. You cannot be neutral....

28 February, 2019

Pastoral Orientations on Human Trafficking

Human trafficking, says Pope Francis, is an “atrocious scourge,” an “aberrant plague,” an “open wound on the body of contemporary...

23 January, 2019

Points on jobs, demography and migration

Rome, 10-12 January 2019 - The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development hosted an International Research Seminar on the theme...

16 January, 2019

Peace is based on respect for each person, whatever his or her background

The World Day of Peace is marked each year on the 1st of January with a special Message by the...

03 January, 2019

Global Compact on Migration: Holy See focused on Peace, Development, Integration

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin gives two speeches at a two day intergovernmental Conference on Migration taking place...

12 December, 2018