Migration Week News Today

Globally, there is a lack of high-quality and policy-relevant research on health, migration and displacement. There is also lack of clarity about which knowledge gaps should be addressed in order to advance progress towards the most urgent global public health objectives, such as within the Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), and the WHO Triple Billion Targets. To address these global evidence gaps, the WHO Department of Health and Mig...

The health of people on the move has never been so important, as one in eight persons across the world is a refugee or migrant – an estimated 1 billion people.Against this backdrop, the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Kingdom of Morocco co-organized the Third Global Consultation on the Health of Refugees and Migrants with a goal of establishing enduring leadership and commit...

The universal Church commemorates the World Day of Migrants and Refugees on September 24, and the Church in the United States commemorates National Migration Week from September 18-24.

Bishop Seitz referenced the Holy Family’s flight to Egypt, in which the child Christ, the Blessed Mother, and St. Joseph were forced to flee to Egypt when Kin...

"Angels Unawares," a work by Timothy Schmalz on The Catholic University of America's campus, depicts 140 immigrants. / Credit: Peter Pinedo/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 15, 2023 / 19:10 pm (CNA). The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is highlighting the overlooked right to remain in one’s country during its weeklong celebration of National Migration Week from Sept. 18–24. “For millennia, people have been forced to flee their homelands, seeking...

Ahead of the U.S. Catholic Church’s observance of National Migration Week, the U.S. Bishops Conference Migration Chair is reminding Catholics that they are “compelled to respond with charity” to migrants and refugees who are forced to flee their homes.

Thousands of Catholics from various corners of the world gathered in Fátima over the weekend for the annual Pilgrimage of the Migrant and the Refugee, presided over by Archbishop Filomeno Dias Vieira of Luanda. Last year, Bishop Edgar Cunha of Fall River, Massachusetts, led the pilgrimage. Centered around the theme “Empowering Choice: Embrace Migration or […]

WASHINGTON - The Catholic Church in the United States marks National Migration Week (September 19-25) as an opportunity for the faithful to reflect on the circumstances confronting migrants, refugees, and victims of human trafficking, among others. The week-long observation customarily concludes with the Vaticans World Day of Migrants and Refugees (WDMR) on the last Sunday of September.  Instituted in 1914, WDMR is an occasion for the worlds Catholics to express concern for vulnerable persons o...

WASHINGTON - The Catholic Church in the United States marks National Migration Week (September 19-25) as an opportunity for the faithful to reflect on the circumstances confronting migrants, refugees, and victims of human trafficking, among others. The week-long observation customarily concludes with the Vaticans World Day of Migrants and Refugees (WDMR) on the last Sunday of September.  Instituted in 1914, WDMR is an occasion for the worlds Catholics to express concern for vulnerable persons o...

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Jesuit Refugee Service/USA has launched the Migrant Accompaniment Network, a nationwide group of volunteers who will engage those who have recently arrived in the U.S. with their integration into welcoming communities, the organization said in a Sept. 14 announcement. The network we are building will provide a way for the many people who want to help newcomers in their community to accompany them and to advocate for migrants, refugees and those seeking asylum in the Unite