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Casa del Migrante Beato Juan Bautista Scalabrini Opens Its Doors

Lima Peru, September 25, 2018 – The Association of the Missionaries of San Carlos Scalabrinianos (legal name of SIMN in Peru) inaugurated the Welcoming Center Blessed John Baptist Scalabrini on September 24, with the support of the United Nations High Commissioner for the Refugees (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and in coordination with the Peruvian Episcopal Conference. This Welcoming Center, which has been in operation since August 6 of this year, has been

Xenophobia

Rome, September 20, 2018 – Fear is one of the most reserved and hidden feelings. But, at the same time, it is also one of the most shared. This apparent paradox is easy to understand: we have strictly personal fears, intimate, hidden, closed, buried in the depths of our insides; and we have collective fears, which involve a family, a certain human group, a community and even a whole society. “Phobia” – a word derived