National Day in Memory of Migration Victims

National Day in Memory of Migration Victims

When will we choose respect and justice with migrants?
Let’s make a difference together!

The Day was established by the Italian Parliament with Law 45 of 21 March 2016 following what happened at dawn on 3 October 2013, a few dozen metres off the coast of the island of Lampedusa, when a boat sank causing the death of 366 people, many of them women and children. It is no coincidence that Pope Francis, who inaugurated his ‘mandate’ in July 2013 by going to Lampedusa, the following year received a delegation of survivors and relatives of the shipwreck that occurred on 3 October 2013, near the shores of the island, in which 368 migrants had found their deaths.

Foto: https://cild.eu/blog
National day in memory of the victims of migration - 2021
National day in memory of the victims of migration - 2020

Since then, many other tragedies, by sea and by land, have followed one after the other, causing the deaths, in inhuman situations, of hundreds of migrants of all ages

In our archive (https://www.missiongoodshepherd.org) we have devoted much space to the urgency of awakening our consciences and acting to stem the drift of humanity.

Indifference kills. Let’s make a difference with migrants
Even the migrant children are exhausted, but in the snow they have been walking for years towards a welcome that does not exist
Thousands of refugees on the border between Belarus and Poland. Urgent for us the Grace of Shame
Humanity at the crossroads if traumatised migrant children go into ‘hibernation’ to save their world and our world
More walls against migrants: 12 European countries want to build them

È TEMPO DI FARE LA DIFFERENZA!
I migranti morti lungo tutte le rotte delle migrazioni
di sete e di indifferenza
CI TOLGANO IL SONNO
CI SPINGANO A TRASFORM-AZIONI RADICALI.

Illustration (2006) by Tommaso D’Incalci
for the book ‘Classic Bible stories’ – ADPS Editions London (UK)

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