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Appeal for Prayers and Action in Response to the Turkey/Syria Earthquake

The Governing Committee, staff, and volunteers of the International Catholic Migration Commission express heartfelt concern for our suffering sisters and...

ICMC supports migrant workers devastated by COVID-19 in India

ICMC Supports Migrant Workers Devastated by COVID-19 Job Losses in India

A three-month lockdown went into effect nearly overnight in March 2020, leaving people in the urban slums of Delhi stranded...

His Eminence Cardinal Nzapalainga Dieudonné visits Central African Refugees living at the Gado-Badzéré site near the Cameroonian border with the Republic Central African.

ICMC and its Member in the Central African Republic Support the Safe and Dignified Return of Refugees

The Central African Republic’s Episcopal Commission for Migrants and Refugees (CEMIR) has been holding dialogues with refugees displaced by instability...

Italian coast guard lands in Pozzallo, Sicily with migrants aboard

Italian Bishop Sounds Alarm on ‘Selective Admission’ of Migrants

Hundreds of migrants arrive every week in Italian ports seeking safe haven, but recently they have been left stranded on...

U.S. Bishops Call for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Recognizing the ‘unavoidable reality of migration,’ and that all people are ‘imbued by God with an ‘inviolable dignity,’ means putting...

More than Seven Million Lives at Stake in Ethiopia’s War

Catholic Bishop in northern Ethiopia calls for an end to ‘genocidal war and siege’ that has raged for nearly two...

man and a boy sitting on stairs at train station with COVID masks

Shaping Migration in a Humane Manner

The German Bishops’ Conference, ICMC’s national member, and the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany release the English-language version...

Transporting Wheelchairs into Ukraine

In Poland, a Catholic organization combines the energies of local people with disabilities and their friends to ensure essential relief...

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Need to move beyond basic relief in Ukraine, ICMC says

July 26, 2022

Advocacy Civil Society Coordination Humanitarian Assistance & Development Children & Youth CR4U Mental Health Women

In a European Parliament session on the humanitarian response in Ukraine, ICMC says there is a need to tend to hearts and minds for the people suffering from the war, beyond food and shelter.

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Ukraine crisis needs longer-term solutions: Msgr. Vitillo

Source: AgenSir

In early July, ICMC Secretary General, Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo, spent a week visiting in solidarity with displaced people in Ukraine and refugees in Poland. Speaking for the Catholic Response for Ukraine (CR4U) working group, Msgr. Vitillo at the end of the trip participated in discussions at the European Parliament, pressing for longer-term solutions as the war continues.

World’s Ukrainian Bishops Gather in Poland

Source: Catholic News Service (CNS) in Crux

The Bishops are meeting for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, to feel the 'fraternal unity of the global Church' at a moment when pastoral care is crucial for both people directly affected by the war and to those clergy and laypeople responding in local communities to provide for the needs of refugees and displaced persons.