Last December during his apostolic visit to Southeast Asia, Pope Francis expressed his concern over violence against the stateless Muslim Rohingya minority, who have arrived in Bangladesh in huge numbers…
Last month a young engineer from Patna, the biggest town in the Bihar region of India, was kidnapped and forced at gunpoint to marry a woman he had never seen…
Since the very beginning of the Rohingya’s influx into Bangladesh, I have highlighted the importance of their status as stateless individuals. In the midst of an unprecedented migration crisis, priority…
A big rice bag, some pieces of wood and a rope: simple materials to support a cradle hanging from the roof, a cradle suspended like the life of the baby…
I have just come back from my latest stay in Bangladesh with our MOAS mission in Southeast Asia to help the Rohingya community, and I am struck by the atmosphere…
On February 7th 1968 a group of young people willing to make the world a better place decided to found the Community of Sant’Egidio under the leadership of Andrea Riccardi.…
More than 520,000 Rohingya children are currently living in unsanitary and overcrowded camps or makeshift settlements across the Cox’s Bazar region, and they are all exposed to the serious threat…
Last December the United Nations published a report about international migration and highlighted some key elements for a frank discussion about migratory flows. The report focused on “international migrants”, who…
“I find life beautiful, and I feel free. The sky within me is as wide as the one stretching above my head. I believe in God and I believe in…
With the new year, the medical emergency in Bangladesh seems more and more critical in light of the outbreak of communicable diseases spreading at an alarming rate due to many…