Disasters and Responses
Working on Behalf of the Victims in Guatemala
On June 3, 2018, the eruption of the Fuego volcano (Guatemala) buried dozens of people and left hundreds of families homeless and many more at risk.
“Kéré”: Famine in the South of Madagascar
The people in this region have always suffered from food shortages, which have been dramatically exacerbated in recent years by climate change.
Hurricane Eta in Honduras, Second Phase: Returning Home
“To return home” … we have all heard or used that expression on many occasions. Usually those words have a positive meaning.
Towards the Peripheries of Life (7 and 8): Mount Gurugú, Dar-Heiria (House of the Poor), Dar Asalaam (House of Peace)
Dar Asalaam (Al Hucemas) We woke up in this new city to get to know the Dar Asalaam (House of Peace), where the Brothers of the White Cross welcome Alhucemas kids who have functional diversities. It is Friday and it is time to learn a little more about the Qur'an, we...
Towards the Peripheries of Life (6): Nador (Morocco)
"How beautiful and great is to know, love and serve God! It's the only thing we have to do in the world. Everything else is wasted time" – Andrea Varela and Sergio Vicente We got up early to head to the border. Once we pass Spanish customs, an unknown world opens up...
Towards the Peripheries of Life (5): Melilla
"Many do not arrive, their dream sinks, wet papers, papers without owner" We dawn in the autonomous Spanish City of Melilla and we go to the CETI. We are received by its manager, Carlos Montero, who will guide us on a visit to the facilities. Once there, we have the...
Towards the Peripheries of Life (4): the Plastic Sea (Almería)
Mountains, Plastic, Sea. We start the day heading to El Ejido, where we are welcomed by the CEPAIM Association. We divided ourselves into three groups to explore the plastic sea that surrounds the area. We are guided by Abdelaziz, a Moroccan who has been in Spain for...
Towards the Peripheries of Life (3): CIE Algeciras – Tarifa and Proyecto Alma
We start the day with Eucharist with the community of Centro Contigo, then we head towards El Saladillo (Algeciras). Once there we divided into three groups and visited the CIEs of Tarifa and Algeciras, and the Alma Project. Route 1: CIES When we arrive at the Island...
Towards the peripheries of life (2): “Centro Contigo”. Proyect “Cerca del Hogar” (Línea de la Concepción)
"A Christian on the way out is not the one who travels the world without direction and without sense, he knows where he is going, is a life delivered." We started the day around the altar of the Lord, in community, next to the Daughters of Charity of the provincial...
Towards the peripheries of life (1): El Pino Centre. Project Esperanza (Seville)
The road to the encounter with the foreigner begins in the south of Spain: to the outskirts of Seville, 5 hectares which receive an amalgam of hard histories but hopeful hearts. At the El Pino center they welcome underage immigrants to help them become part of the...
Towards the Peripheries of Life (Introduction): The Road Begins
A group of Spanish Vincentians experiences one of the worst realities of poverty and lack of solidarity in our world today: immigration from the south to the rich countries of the north. This is the diary of this journey -- the calvary of so many -- who even go so...
The Sacrament of the Bloody Palm
Jihad terror struck the Coptic Christian community in Egypt on Sunday, April 9, Palm Sunday. Two successive bomb attacks caused dozens of deaths and more than a hundred wounded persons in two Coptic churches of Alexandria and Tanta, in the north of the country. At the...