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Migration in Theological Thought and Pastoral Action FOCUS Urbaniana University Journal 3/2022 In a historical excursus about mission, Swiss theologian Walbert Bühlmann speaks of a Third Church as a new stage in which the Christian community finds itself and a "new migration of the people of God". He recalls how in the first millennium the community and theological-pastoral reflection were largely influenced by the eastern churches (first church) and subsequently in the second millennium the gravitational center shifted to the west (second church). The third millennium is characterized by polycentrism and particularly with the flourishing of cultures and populations that [...]

We present the second part of Luca Agostini’s research on climate change and migration: A Reflection of COP26 and the Future of Climate Induced Migration 2022 Climate Justice and Migration: Treatment and Dignity   Climate change and its effects have the potential to provide for a uniting cause, bridging communal, economic, or social divides in pursuit of a better planet, or a further measure with which preexisting economic and social divides are exacerbated whereby states who have contributed the most towards climate change and gained the most economically from their exploitation of recourses manage to use their financial power in order to [...]

From One's Own Oikos to the Oikumene. Interreligious Dialogue in a Globalized and Multicultural Society We share the notes from the presentation by Fr. Aldo Skoda cs, director of SIMI, at the second Permanent Training Day organized by the Offices for the Pastoral Care of Migrants of the Lombard Dioceses (Migrantes Lombardia) in collaboration with the Scalabrini International Migration Institute (SIMI). A Starting Point “All of this has a particular significance in our time because what we are experiencing is not simply an era of changes, but a change of an era. We are, therefore, in one of those moments [...]

Consecrated Life and Migration Pastoral Care with Migrants: From Reception to Integration by Prof. Aldo SKODA, cs – Presentation at the XLVII Claretianum Conference Fr. Aldo Skoda is member of the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles (Scalabrini). After completing his studies in Philosophy and Theology with a degree in Christian Anthropology, he graduated in Psychology from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano and obtained a Doctorate in Pastoral Theology from the Pontificia Università Lateranense in Rome. Professor of Pastoral Theology and Human Mobility at Pontificia Università Urbaniana, Fr. Skoda is also Director of the Scalabrini International Migration [...]

Tenth Report Study Documents by the Joint Working Group  between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches The title of the 10th Report—Walking, Praying and Working Together: An Ecumenical Pilgrimage—was the motto of Pope Francis’ visit to Geneva in June 2018. Undoubtedly this was the highlight of ecumenical cooperation between the WCC and the RCC during this mandate of the JWG. It accurately captured the WCC’s emphasis on a pilgrimage of justice and peace following the 10th Assembly in Busan in 2013 and Pope Francis’ conviction that unity can only grow through Christians walking together as fellow pilgrims in [...]

Meet Lina Maria Roa Our New Intern University of Valencia, Spain   We welcome the new SIMI apprentice Lina Maria Roa from the University of Valencia (Spain) who is currently conducting her Master's degree in International Migration (MIM). She is Colombian and a migrant who currently resides in Valencia Spain. She has chosen the "Master in International Migration" in order to later specialize and be able to work and serve the immigrant population regardless of their race, gender, language and nationality in a more suitable and professional way. She has worked closely with the victims of the armed conflict in Colombia and [...]

A Reflection of COP26 and the Future of Climate Induced Migration 2022  Luca Agostini «Fears are legitimate, based on doubts that are fully understandable from a human point of view. Having doubts and fears is not a sin. The sin is to let these fears determine our responses, condition our choices, undermine respect and generosity, fuel hatred and rejection. » -Francis, Homily of His Holiness in the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, 2018.   Introduction On the 31st of October 2021, heads of state, members of government and international organizations alongside representatives of civil social and environmental groups flocked to the [...]

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Fernando Gaetano Tirro Arias, Italian-Venezuelan, son of a migrant Italian father and Venezuelan mother, with professional experience as a translator in English, Italian and Spanish, I was an assistant to senior management in Commercial Industries, who decided to change his personal and professional direction, after learning about the Charisma of Juan Bautista Scalabrini when I started as a Lay Scalabrinian. So now I dedicate myself full time as a layperson helping the “Left Behind” in the community (children and elderly victims of migration) as well as the “Invisible Left Behind” (disabled children left behind) at the Scalabrini center located near the [...]