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Athens, 1 December 2017 – The Greek government, with the support of European Union leaders, should act now before the onset of winter to end Greece’s “containment policy,” 12 human...
It is natural for a Catholic school to accept refugees
“These [troubled Hungarian] children do not require less or different love than refugee children.” – Rita Rubovszky, principal
The Social Aspects of the 2015 Migration Crisis in Hungary
The TÁRKI Hungarian Social Research Institute published its latest report on the Social Aspects of the 2015 Migration Crisis in Hungary.
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Herman Van Rompuy, President Emeritus of the European Council, gave the following keynote speech at the conference “The Role of Christians in Today`s Europe” on January 20, 2016 in the Chapel...
„For I was a stranger and you invited me in”
This article about refugees appeared on the website of the Catholic Social Academy of Austria.
Refugees, Victims of misrule and indifference
59.5 million. This is the number of people who found themselves displaced from their country of origin in 2014 because of persecution, conflicts, widespread violence and human rights violations. That...
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We pray for the victims and their close ones. We pray for Paris and France. And we also pray for the souls of those who committed these crimes… „I say...
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We arrived to the Opatovac transit camp established for refugees on the serbian-croatian border on Wednesday at 8 am. As volunteers within the Hungarian Jesuit Refugee Service, we came in...