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ACMRO News December 2018
ICMC: An Introduction to the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
The recently adopted Migration Compact can transform the lives of nearly 250 million migrants around the world. But what is it, exactly? Why and how was it developed? What is it trying to achieve? How will it change the reality of migrants? Does it have shortcomings? And what role can NGOs play in its implementation?
ACMRO News November 2018
What Are the “Global Compacts” and How Will They Affect Migrants and Refugees?
Geneva, 27 November 2018 - In December 2018, UN member states will adopt the Global Compact for Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees. These international agreements introduce a new, comprehensive approach to address the needs of migrants and refugees around the world.
ACMRO News October 2018
Address by Pope Francis to the General Chapter of the Congregation of the Missionaries of St Charles, Scalabrinians
I am pleased to meet you on the occasion of your General Chapter and to address to each one of you my cordial greeting, starting with the new Superior General, whom I thank for his words and to whom I wish all the best for his ministry.
ACMRO News September 2018
Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office launched Third Volume of Thinking Migration
In His message on the occasion of the 104th World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Pope Francis wrote that:“Every stranger who knocks at our door is an opportunity for an encounter with Jesus Christ, who identifies with the welcomed and rejected strangers of every age”. (Matthew 25:35-43).
