On 10-11 November, the 2026 ICMC Council meeting will reflect on the global situation related to human mobility, and the specific challenges that the Church is encountering and responding to across every continent. ICMC members will elect a President and approve a new organizational strategy for the coming four years, and members and guests will together celebrate our collective service and achievements as a global Church in this realm.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Cardinal Fabio Baggio, C.S. (Pro-Prefect, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development) and Mr. Filippo Grandi (11th UN High Commissioner for Refugees).
On 12 November, ICMC will be joined by Caritas Internationalis, Jesuit Refugee Service, and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to host ‘Celebrating 75 Years of the UN Refugee Convention: Faith perspectives and moral commitments’, a half-day public event exploring how faith-based moral commitments to protect refugees can help preserve the Convention as a binding and effective global framework.
Speakers include Dr. Victor Genina (Director of Integral Human Development, Caritas Internationalis), Br. Michael Schöpf, S.J. (International Director, Jesuit Refugee Service) and Mr. Davide Bernocchi (Secretary General, ICMC).
“The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking. Where the world sees threats, she sees children; where walls are built, she builds bridges. She knows that her proclamation of the Gospel is credible only when it is translated into gestures of closeness and welcome. And she knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community.”
Pope Leo XIV, Apostolic Exhortation ‘Dilexi te’, 75
