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The Italian Catholic Mission in Bern, directed by Fr. Antonio Grasso, in collaboration with the Swiss IOM, the SIMN Europe-Africa and the Katholishce Kirche Region Bern, organized a cycle of two conferences entitled, "The Journeys of Hope towards Bern." The first conference was held at the auditorium of the Mission on 26 February 2016 and  the first presentar was the director of SIMI, to whom the treatment of the theme "Faces at the [...]

On 1 February 2016, at the SIMI headquarters, P. Vengacheriyil Kora Jaimón has successfully defended his Ph.D thesis. The dissertation titled, "Migration and Development. Impacts of Migration on Members of the Left - Behind Families in the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly" was highly graded by the moderator, prof. Fabio Baggio, and the correlators, prof. Francis-Vincent Anthony and prof. René Manenti. The same professors composed the thesis defense commitee. P. Jaimon, who now holds the [...]

In order to start a theological reflection on the pastoral care of human mobility in Africa, the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Mozambique (SECAM) and the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa Region (ACERAC), in collaboration with SIMI and the International Catholic Commission for Migration (ICMC), organized an international conference on the theology of human mobility in Africa in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. The conference, which took [...]

The director and vice director of SIMI were invited to hold two days of specialized training within the VI Training Course for Formators, which was organized by the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles - Scalabrini ( MSCS ) and held in Rome, at the headquarters of the General Administration of MSCS, from 10 January to 2 February 2016. Prof. Fabio Baggio was entrusted the theme "Migrations: Context of Scalabrinian [...]

Some professors of SIMI were called to present a series of lectures in the Training Seminar for Teachers, which was organized by the Pontifical Urban University (PUU) in the first semester of 2015-2016. The seminar titled, "Migrations: a social phenomenon and a pastoral challenge" was an on-going training program for teachers of the academic institutions affiliated to PUU worldwide. Prof. René Manenti, Aldo Skoda, Fabio Baggio, Gabriele Beltrami and Gioacchino Campese were called during the months [...]

On 15 December 2015, from 14.30 to 17.30, SIMI and the Institute of Pastoral Theology of the Pontifical Salesian University (UPS) held a seminar titled "Young Migrants and Interculture: Challenges and Good Practices." The rector of the Salesian university, Prof. M. Mantonvani, opened the proceedings. The main speakers were Dr. G. Cipollone, professor of Church History and editor of the book "The challenge of migration: risks and opportunities," and Dr. L. Pandolfi, [...]