Social Ministry
The working group on Social Ministry reflects on how we can make effective, the pastoral care of migrants and those from the margins of society who are often deprived of any pastoral help.
The group consists of following persons:
Fr. Winfried Pauly (San Clemente Province) – chairman
Fr. Urquizo Vasquez Guillermo Ulianov (France Province)
Fr. Ivan Levitsky (Lviv Province)
Sr. Renate Drexler MSsR (Wien)
Mr. Jelle Wind (San Clemente Province)
The group elaborated an understanding of Social Ministry.
The group has started an overview of different initiatives on Social Ministry.
Cancelling the Colloquium on Pastoral Care of Migrants
Dear Confreres, My fraternal greetings and the best wishes at the beginning of this Year. I wish you and your Provinces a fruitful time of evangelization in which we can give the joy of the Gospel to our brothers. I want to communicate that the Colloquium on the Pastoral Care of Migrants prepared by the Secretariat for Evangelization in Bochum (Germany) in May 2014, has been canceled. The reason of this decision is insufficient number of applicants who wanted to participate in it. The Social Pastoral Commission of CRE thinks that this issue...
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Ministry for Migrants as chance and challenge Working with people affected by migration ranks high among the priorities of the Conference (CRE). There are only few pastoral activities in which we do not meet people with a migration background. Some confreres and partners in our ministry make these problems their special concern, and they do this in many different ways. We feel that a colloquium is a good way to provide a forum where those actively engaged in Ministry for Migrants can share their experiences, receive new impulses, and network...
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This group reflects on how we can make effective, the pastoral care of migrants and those from the margins of society who are often deprived of any pastoral help. Therefore the work of this group will be devoted to: searching for the pastoral care of these people in different parts of Europe, using the European Conference’s structures and the networks between the Conferences for this purpose finding new ways of preaching Plentiful Redemption to migrants in Europe collecting the experiences from this work making the task of “Justice and Peace”...
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