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    Sr. Rosita Milesi has Brazilian and Italian citizenship. She is a member of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo - Scalabrinians, which she joined in 1964. She is a lawyer, enrolled in the Brazilian Bar Association under n. 11.334, having graduated in Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. She was responsible for the implementation of the Scalabrinian Center for Migration Studies, created by the Congregation of the Scalabrinian Sisters in 1988. She founded, in 1999, the Migrations and Human Rights Institute (IMDH), institution of which she is the current President. [...]

    Fr. Pat Murphy, c.s. is currently in his eight year as Director of the Casa del Migrant in Tijuana (a house for migrants and refugees). He was born in New York City in 1952.  He did his seminary studies in New York, Chicago and Toronto.  He graduated from Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois in 1974 with bachelor’s in psychology and in 1979 completed his Masters in Divinity at the University of Toronto. He also received a Masters in Pastoral Studies from Loyola University in Chicago in 1985.   Fr. Pat has been a member of the Missionaries of St. [...]

  vănThanh Nguyễn, SVD, is Professor of New Testament Studies and the holder of the Francis X. Ford, M.M., Chair of Catholic Missiology at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, U.S.A. He is a missionary of the Society of the Divine Word (S.V.D.) and earned a doctorate in Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He has authored several books and numerous articles, including “Acts” in The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the 21st Century and What Does the Bible Say About Strangers, Migrants, and Refugees?     List of Most Relevant Publications: Books: What Does the Bible Say about Strangers, [...]

  Nuria Calduch-Benages, born in Barcelona (Spain), is Professor of Old Testament at the Pontifical Gregorian University and Invited Professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, Italy. She is vice-president of the International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature (ISDCL) and editorial board member of Estudios Bíblicos (Madrid), Introducción al estudio de la Biblia (Estella), Vetus Testamentum and Vetus Testamentum.Supplements (Leiden) and Storia delle donne (Firenze). Since 2014 she is member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and since 2021 Secretary of the same Commission. Her research focuses on wisdom literature, deuterocanonical books, especially Sirach, biblical anthropology, biblical metaphors, [...]

The Bible is deeply marked by the experience of forced and voluntary migrations; justified by the two great events that marked the life of ancient Israel, namely, the fall of Samaria under the Assyrian empire in 722 BC, and the capture of Jerusalem under the Babylonian empire in 596-539 BC, with the subsequent deportations of the Hebrew people. From beginning to end, the Bible contains various experiences of migrations, starting with the ancestors, patriarchs and matriarchs of ancient Israel, passing through the experience of the Hebrew people in Egypt, the journey in the desert and the diaspora after exile.  These events [...]