On-Going Formation of the Scalabrinian Sisters
Monday, 4 May 2015, Prof. Fabio Baggio, director of SIMI, was ivitato to deliver a day of conferences in the ongoing formation course of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles, Scalabrinians. The course, organized in Piacenza normally during the month of May, this year gathered more than twenty religious operating in different countries of the world. Prof . Baggio was given the task of identifying the most relevant socio-pastoral challenges posed to the universal Church [...]
Assemblea dei Laici Scalabriniani a Piacenza
The director of SIMI, Fabio Baggio, was invited to participate in the Triennial General Assembly of the Scalabrini Lay Peopleof the Region Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, which brought together representatives of the various Scalabrinian lay groups operating in Europe and in Africa. The meeting was held in Piacenza on 1-3 May 2015 and focused on the topic "New Horizons for the Scalabrinian Family: the role of the laity." Prof. Fabio Baggio [...]
Presentation of Proceedings of the Summer School 2014
On 29 April 2015 at the consultation room of the Center for Migration Studies in Rome (CSER) the issue 197 of the scientific journal "Studi Emigrazione," containing the proceedings of the 2014 edition of the Summer School "Human Mobility and global justice" was officially launched. The event took the title of the aforementioned Summer School "Words matter ... Define, represent, communicate the world of migration." Prof. Laura Zanfrini, editor of the volume, [...]
Scalabrinian On-Going Formation in Brescia
SIMI has collaborated in the organization of the ongoing formation course offered by the Region of Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini in Brescia from 14 to 16 April 2015. The course gathered over 50 Scalabrinian missionaries in order to take vision of the actual situation of migration in Europe and Africa, investigate real roots, the asymmetries between the north and south that force to emigrate, as well as the dynamics of exploitation and [...]
Quaderno SIMI 12
The 12th volume of the series Quaderni SIMI has been published and it now available. On 28 November 2013, at the Newman Hall of the Pontifical Urban University, the Scalabrini International Migration Institute (SIMI) held its traditional Academic Act. The 2013 edition of the act was titled, "Not by Bread Alone ... Human Mobility and Development Scenarios." The 2013 edition of the Academic Act of SIMI, in its first two sessions, wanted to [...]
Lessons at Angelicum
SIMI was invited by the ISSR "Mater Ecclesiae" of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum) to give a series of lectures on the phenomenon of human mobility and the pastoral responses that the Catholic Church has set up in recent times as part of module on pastoral theory and practice entitled "Evangelizing". In this context, on February 25, 2015, from 15:30 to 17:00 hrs., prof. Aldo Skoda and Fr. Corrado Caroli dictated a [...]