CPAL

On 13 and 14 April 2023, the first Formative-Reflective Meeting on Reconciliation was held with 22 members of the eight works of the Red Apostolica Ignaciana de Guayana (RAIG) [Works of the Apostolic Ignatian Apostolic Network of Guyana]. Jesuit scholastic Javier Contreras led and accompanied the group; the activity is part of a Province initiative on reconciliation, justice and citizenship.

Recent U.S. decisions regarding the termination of Title 42 (in effect until Thursday, May 11, 2023) and agreements with other countries in the region are generating major impacts that violate the guarantee of Human Rights, particularly the right to request International Protection.

Desde la Red Jesuita con Migrantes agradecemos a todas las personas que desde el Servicio Jesuita a Migrantes y Refugiados Brasil completan este año dos décadas de camino compartido con las personas migrantes y refugiadas en este gran país.

As part of the transition process of the change of president of the CPAL, we had a fruitful meeting in Lima, where we met with the dynamic team of SJPAM, its outgoing president and the newly appointed president of the Conference, with the five Provincials of the Pan-Amazonian territory (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela), the Regional Superior of Guyana and the Delegate for the Amazon of Brazil.

En fecha 5 de abril de 2022, en la comunidad Santa Rosa del territorio autónomo guaraní de Huacaya, departamento de Chuquisaca, se llevó a cabo una reunión interinstitucional convocada por la Capitanía Guaraní de la Zona Santa Rosa de Huacaya, para coordinar la gestión y el uso correcto del agua de la pera construida en la comunidad Itangua.

We share the communiqué issued by the clergy of the Province of Dajabón, in the Dominican Republic, in response to the massive deportations being carried out by the government, in which the human rights of migrants are being violated.

The Integral Ecology and Pan-Amazon Initiative of the International Federation of Fe y Alegría will present the "Collection of Documents on Indigenous Migrant Itineraries".

The Jesuit Migrant Service for Costa Rica has rejected, in a statement, the announcement by the country's President Rodrigo Chaves about taking measures to prevent "economic migrants" from continuing to use the figure of political refugees to stay in the territory. We share the statement.

The First National Afro Brazil - SJ Meeting took place in Fortaleza (CE) between 21 and 23 October, a critical moment for discussing developments in the collective construction of antiracist actions in Jesuit works, besides strengthening the Afro Brazil SJ Articulation and its organisational and strategic identity.

On the last day of our 7-11 November 2022 Continental Assembly in Bogota, as is customary in the meetings of the Jesuit Network with Migrants, a proposal for a communiqué was presented and approved. It was worked on throughout the week, especially in the last few days, by a commission representing the network's three regions (CANA, SURAM and CARIBBEAN) and our continental dimension.