Migrants and Refugees Section

The Vatican Dicastery for Integral Human Development (IHD),[1] operational as of January 1, 2017, includes a section on Migrants and Refugees. Appalled by the conditions and treatment of great numbers of migrants, refugees, displaced and trafficked persons, Pope Francis explained to several thousand representatives of Popular Movements in the Audience Hall on 5 November 2016 that “In the department [IHD] Cardinal Peter Turkson heads, there is a section concerned with those situations. I decided that, at least for a while, that section would be directly under the Pope, because here we have a disgraceful situation that can only be described by a word that in Lampedusa came spontaneously to my lips: shame.” [2][3][4] In mid-December, he named Michael Czerny S.J., a Canadian Jesuit, and Fabio Baggio C.S, an Italian Scalabrinian, to serve as under-secretaries of IHD to be “occupied specifically in the care of migrants and refugees.” [5]

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The M&R Section's primary mission is to support the Church – locally, regionally, internationally – accompanying people at all stages of migration, especially those who are in one way or another forced to move or to flee. The Section's concern includes those who are compelled to migrate: asylum seekers, refugees, internally displaced people, as well as other international and internal migrants. It devotes particular attention to migrants who experience hardships and suffering in the countries of origin or destination or in transit: for example, people fleeing conflicts, persecutions and humanitarian emergencies (both natural and human-made), victims of human trafficking, migrants with irregular status, exploited migrant workers, and vulnerable migrant women, youth, and children.

References
  1. McElwee, Joshua J. (31 August 2016). "Francis creates new Vatican office for charity, justice, peace, migration". Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  2. "Migrants and refugees at the heart of Pope's new 'Motu Proprio'". Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  3. "Pope to oversee migration issues in shakeup of Vatican offices". Reuters. 2016-08-31. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  4. "To participants in the World Meeting of Popular Movements (5 November 2016) | Francis". w2.vatican.va. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  5. "Pope Francis appoints Jesuit and Scalabrini priests to new Vatican department for refugees". America Magazine. 2016-12-14. Retrieved 2017-01-08.


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