FONDAZIONE MIGRANTES
ORGANISMO PASTORALE DELLA CONFERENZA EPISCOPALE ITALIANA
Immigrati e profughi

ICMC Member in Italy Accompanies Search and Rescue Mission in the Central Mediterranean

By Rachel Westerby The Mediterranean has been a hub of migration activity for many thousands of years. Since the mid-1990s, migration in the region has centered on movement toward Europe, to where many thousands have since attempted to travel to seek protection, work, and prosperity. Today, migratory routes across the Mediterranean Sea are amongst the […]
8 Ottobre 2024

By Rachel Westerby

The Mediterranean has been a hub of migration activity for many thousands of years. Since the mid-1990s, migration in the region has centered on movement toward Europe, to where many thousands have since attempted to travel to seek protection, work, and prosperity. Today, migratory routes across the Mediterranean Sea are amongst the most dangerous in the world: since 2014, an estimated 30,000 people have lost their lives while attempting these journeys.

The Migrantes Foundation, a pastoral body of ICMC national member the Italian Episcopal Conference, is responding to the ongoing deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, by supporting and highlighting lifesaving civil society Search and Rescue (SAR) operations in the Central Mediterranean.

Most recently, the Foundation supported a joint initiative of the diocese of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola and the SAR platform Mediterranea Saving Humans, providing a support boat to accompany the Mediterranea vessel Mare Jonio on a SAR mission, taking place over the weekend of 23-25 August, 2024.

Fonte: ICMC