“Refugees are desperate and try to go to countries where they believe Human Rights are respected”, said UNHRC spokesperson María Jesús Vega in a interview. Summer will be a very critical season.
A UNHCR report explained how Europe is living through a maritime refugee crisis of historic proportions.
Anti-Inmigration Danish People's Party comes second and centre-right coalition will be able to form a new government.
UN gives the numbers of 2014, an alerts that we are “witnessing a paradigm change” in which reality “is now clearly dwarfing anything seen before.”
The Comission introduces a country-by-country quota system to respond to the Mediterranean crisis. Evangelicals had asked for real solutions in recent weeks.
About 7,000 people were rescued last weekend, but 46 might have drowned.
You can sink the boats on the African shores. And then what? A serious reflection on citizenship in the global world is needed.
The majority of migrants arriving to Europe's coasts are seeking refuge from terrorists, violence, war and persecution. They are the threatened ones.
Christel Lamère, representative of the European Evangelical Alliance in Brussels, asks for “binding agreements and tangible objectives.”
About 800 people are feared dead in the worst humanitarian tragedy happened in the sea which separates Africa and Europe. European Union's representatives discuss how to respond. An illustration by cartoonist Ricardo (El Mundo newspaper).
If confirmed, the disaster would be one of the worst seen during the decades-long migrant crisis in the southern Mediterranean.
Foreign officials of 29 countries met in Barcelona to address “the heartrending drama of illegal migration.” Italy overwhelmed after 5.600 new migrants arrived at their coasts only in last weekend.
Hundreds of refugees seek sanctuary in churches to avoid deportation, under the protection of an ancient custom.
More than two-thirds of US evangelical Christians support both immigration reform and enhanced border security, a survey revealed. Supporters say they're acting from biblical motivations to help others.
Church of England says country needs “new approach to political life”. Conservative party reacts: “There is a very definite left-wing leaning to their message”.
“There is a general sense of hopelessness because our processing system is slow and ineffective,” says Italian pastor Leonardo de Chirico.
Two passengers blamed the evangelicals for the bad weather, and they beat, robbed and threw them into the sea.
Juan Francisco Martinez is an expert who knows well the Hispanic church in the United States. He clarifies some aspects of the Obama initiative which affects more than five million immigrants who live in a illegal situation.
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