Bishop allays Hindu fear over mass migration

An Indian bishop says Hindu fears over the Kerala Church’s plan to organize a mass migration are misplaced and unwarranted.

Kerala church launches Konkan migration

Kerala’s Syro-Malabar Catholic Church has launched a mission to develop a township in the Konkan area of Maharashtra state with Church members beginning to acquire hundreds of acres of land in the region.

Church confronts ‘culture of escape’

Migration “has become a survival strategy…to escape armed conflict, human rights violations, authoritarian and corrupt governments, as well as unemployment and poverty.” (Father John Murray, UCA News Commentary)

Little has changed in the four years since those words were used in the October 2005 submission to the UN Committee on Migrants, least of all in Asia, [...]

International Catholic Migration Commission

The International Catholic Migration Commission was founded in the wake of the human displacement caused by the Second World War, to respond to the needs of forced migrants - such as the internally displaced people who are “refugees” within their own countries.

China’s Catholic moment

Not since late antiquity has the world seen a migration of peoples like the great urbanisation of China now in progress. By 2025, migrants will make up two-fifths of China’s billion-strong urban population, a fifth of all the Chinese, according to the McKinsey Global Institute.