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WCC visit to Italy harvests examples of the churches’ unconditional support to refugees and migrants

The Central Mediterranean route is the overseas crossing from North Africa to Italy. Those migrating on this route generally aim to reach Italian shores but leave from a variety of North African countries bordering the Mediterranean. Though in past years most migrants have departed from Libya, which is a destination for migrants as well as a transit country, there is also a proportionally small but growing number of departures from Tunisia, Egypt, and Algeria.

Padre Ioan Sauca: “Dios está del lado de los que sufren”

El Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), desde el primer día de la guerra en Ucrania e incluso en los meses anteriores, ha estado trabajando y orando fervientemente por la paz en este conflicto y en todo el mundo. Desde el principio, el CMI ha pedido el cese inmediato de las hostilidades armadas, que se detenga la guerra y ha hecho un llamado para que se ponga fin de inmediato a los ataques indiscriminados que afectan cada vez más a la población civil de Ucrania. El servicio de noticias del CMI se reunió en línea con el secretario general en funciones del CMI, el Rev. Prof. Dr. Ioan Sauca, para conocer las últimas novedades sobre la labor del CMI.

Fr Ioan Sauca: “God is on the side of those who are suffering”

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has, since the first day of the war in Ukraine and even in the months before, been working and praying earnestly for peace in this conflict and throughout the world. From the beginning, the WCC has called for an immediate end to armed hostilities, to stop the war and has appealed also for an immediate end to indiscriminate attacks with an escalating impact on civilians in Ukraine. WCC News met online with the WCC acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca to get the latest update on the work of the WCC.