“Migration is at the heart of the churches’ agenda in Europe”
[Rev. Jean-Arnold de Clermont, President of CEC]
Migration is an overall reality in society today – migration is posing challenges to societies, political institutions and churches. At the same time, migration offers perspectives for living in diversity, enrichment for personal life as well as for Churches’ life. As Christians we are obliged and invited to “welcome the stranger”.
This website wants to introduce the year of „european churches responding to migration 2010“. It provides information about key aims, steps towards them and your possibility to join in.
In this year we want to share experiences from existing church programmes for and with migrants, as well as stimulate new programmes to improve the visibility of churches’ engagement for migrants, refugees and ethnic minority people. Through exchange and encouragement we want to foster meaning and public recognition of church programmes with and for migrants.
A calendar of „european churches responding to migration 2010“ with focus-themes for each month, as well as with international days around migration and religious and intercultural festive days wants to inspire and invite churches to identify major issues around migration in their region, to organize own activities related to the calendar and to share their activities with each other.
This website shall stimulate the discussion, what churches can do to enhance the visibility of their work with and for migrants and to promote more inclusive communities and societies and an inclusive policy on European and national level.
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