The continuing drama of the forcibly displaced peoples in the Great Lakes Region of Africa

Article Abstract:

The special assembly of bishops of the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar has issued a document attesting to the ongoing fratricidal war in Burundi and Rwanda, in particular, and the social and political tragedies of the Great Lakes Region, in general. The crisis include ethnocentrism, prejudice and stereotyping, colonialism, support of nations for warring groups, vendetta, poverty and the denial of the rights of others. Thus, the bishops of the Great Lakes are appealing for a more effective network of pastoral care for these displaced people.

Great Lakes region (North America)

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Pastors without borders: dreams and realities

Article Abstract:

The Catholic Church has expressed its desire to help African refugees by seeking volunteers from within the ranks to do humanitarian work with itinerant and displaced people in African states. The Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (PCM) has expressed support for the project 'Pastors Without Borders' that invites volunteers from the clergy to help the refugees, accompany them during their flight, their period of exile and their return to the home community or country of resettlement.

Analysis, Social policy, Religion and politics, Priests, Volunteer workers in social service, Social service volunteers, Catholic Church, Catholic Church and world politics, Roman Catholicism

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Refugees today: the reality and our response

Article Abstract:

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees places the number of refugees around the world at some 27 million. However, the actual number could be as high as 50 million. Refugees can be found in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and even in Oceania. They include those who had escaped from ethnic killing in Rwanda and Burundi, those displaced by civil war in Afghanistan and those who had fled from 30 years of civil war in Southeast Asia. Both church and state play important roles in helping the world's refugees.

International aspects, Refugees

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