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aprile 22, 2014 Marta Fallani

FR | EN | IT – According to the latest data released by Eurostat, in year 2013 the asylum applicants registered in the EU 28 nations were 435,000. They were 335,000 in year 2012. 65% of these applications was rejected. Only 15% of applicants were granted refugee status: about 50,000 people who are new European citizens in all respects. What kind of Europe will the refugees meet, get to know and live?
Since his opening in 2003, the Maison des journalistes (MDJ) in Paris, a place unique in the world, which houses exiled journalists, has welcomed 273 journalists from over 50 nations in the world.

marzo 25, 2014 Sebastien Maillard

Why it is necessary

Pourquoi est nécessaire

EN | FR | IT – Basic professional journalism requires to seek, check and spread information. A Christian journalist will add to this: questioning what this same information tells us from mankind in its alliance with its Creator. Of course not explicitly as spelled out here. Christian journalism comes out in the way of selecting information, the respect in which any person is portrayed, the willingness to keep far-sighted and the ability to point out things that lied there but yet had somehow never been highlighted. A Christian journalist believes in the capacity to change, forgive and trust…

May we defend the dignity of all creation

God of life, who cares for all creation, and calls us to justice and peace, may our security not come from arms, but from respect. May our force not be of violence, but of love. May our wealth not be in money, but in sharing. May our path not be of ambition, but of justice. May our victory not be from vengeance, but in forgiveness. May our unity not be in the quest of power, but in vulnerable witness to do your will. Open and confident, may we defend the dignity of all creation, sharing, today and forever, the bread of solidarity, justice and peace. This we ask in the name of Jesus, your holy Son, our brother, who, as victim of our violence, even from the heights of the cross, gave forgiveness to us all. Amen.[Continue...]

With the eyes of refugees

Avec les yeux des réfugiés

Why it is necessary

Pourquoi est nécessaire