#Migrants

Belarusian-Polish border crisis: how did it reach this stage?

People are camped on Belarusian territory, guarded by the military. Reports from yesterday, November 18, suggest that the migrants have…

Caritas Poland: “Tents of hope” and humanitarian assistance to migrants. Local border parishes mobilised

Caritas is providing humanitarian assistance on the Polish side of the border through four “Tents of Hope” and local parishes.…

Belarus-Poland: EU Commission, €700,000 in aid for migrants at the border. Lenarcic, “access to humanitarian organisations must be guaranteed”

Poland. Voluntary organisations: “We cannot remain indifferent to the plight of migrants at the borders of our country”

“Regardless of whether they qualify for asylum in Europe or whether they should return to their countries of origin, we…

Lithuania: Bishops’ letter to the faithful, “God can be found in the people at our doors”. Prayers for soldiers and migrants

Belarus-Poland: COMECE to the EU, “instrumentalising the despair of migrants has severe and harming human consequences and must be prevented”

Msgr. Grušas (CCEE): “Migrants used as human shields. This is a hybrid attack on border integrity”

“They are not just migrants and refugees. They are persons used instrumentally by a governing regime. Trafficked for political purposes…

Migrants: letter asking the EU to fund walls at borders. Card. Hollerich (COMECE), “right to asylum should be protected and respected”

Romania: asylum applications on the rise. 2020 marks highest number of refugees in the past 3 decades. 62% of minors are unaccompanied

The military barrier stretches from northern to southern borders. So that no one may enter

Acting as “gendarmes” in place of their distinguished US neighbours. Or rather, “doing the dirty work”, in exchange for aids,…

Lithuania: increasing inflow of migrants through the border with Belarus. NGOs in place, the EU sending aids