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The Office of JPIC FRANCISCAN PAPUA involves defending Human Rights of Papuans in Indonesia
The Second Special Autonomy and the New Autonomous Region (DOB) were enacted by Indonesian government as new policy for West Papua, Indonesia, throughout 2022. These were drawn attention from other parties because that policy created more divisions in the middle of pro and contra, including how to establish where will be the administrative capital city.
Church buildings used as shelters for migrants and refugees in the Netherlands
The Netherlands, a European country with about 18 million inhabitants and an area of 41,543 km2, is still one of the favorite destinations for migrants from Ukraine, Africa, Middle East and other continents.
URBI ET ORBI Message of his Holiness Pope Francis. Easter 2023
Central loggia of the Vatican Basilica
Domenica, 9 April 2023
Dear brothers and sisters,
Christ is risen!
“We invite President Putin and President Zelensky to Assisi to restore peace”
The first EcuFilm Fest, Cinema for Interreligious Dialogue, was held from 23 to 25 February 2023, in Meanza, the Province of Latina, Italia. At the end of the festival, Fr. Gianmaria Polidoro, OFM – a Franciscan friar who in 1984 met Reagan at the White House and also went to the Kremlin to plead for an end to the Cold War – sent letters to the Russian and Ukrainian Presidents, and to the Patriarchs of Moscow and Kyiv, to invite them to the Umbrian city.
The gratitude of His Holiness has been addressed to “A Letter to Pope Francis. In the ten years of your pontificate, ten gifts for which to thank you”
Pope Francis has sent his response through the Vatican Secretariat of State to the General JPIC Office for the “Letter to Pope Francis. In the ten years of your ponticate, ten gifts for which to thank you”, by our Director Fr. Daniel Rodríguez Blanco, OFM.
Conclusion of the meeting of the Mediterranean Franciscan Network Coordination Committee. “We want to be like a grain of sand in the great Mediterranean”
Rome, 24 March 2023. From 22 to 24 March, the Coordination Committee of the Franciscan Network of the Mediterranean meeting, organised by the General Office for Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation (JPIC), was held at the General Curia in Rome.
Triggering a different culture of encounter, of integral ecology, of development
During the meeting of the Coordination Committee of the Franciscan Network of the Mediterranean, we interviewed Br Francesco Zecca, OFM, of the Oikos Project and JPIC coordinator of COMPI (Conference of Minister Provincials of Italy and Albania).
Franciscan Mediterranean Network (FMN) Committee Meeting
Taking place at the OFM General Curia, the meeting lasted for three days from March 22 to 24, 2023.
A Letter to Pope Francis. In the ten years of your pontificate, ten gifts for which to thank you
Dear Pope Francis, whom the cardinals as your brothers went to seek “almost to the end of the world”:
May the Lord give you peace!