The fourth volume of the Ecumene Series, with studies and testimonies on consecrated life and the challenges of human mobility, organized by Father Conrado Zepeda, Father Jorge Costadoat - Jesuits and Sister María Eugenia Vazquez, Scalabrinian Missionary, is now available on this website for free download.
In this volume, the Scalabrinian Center for Migration Studies (CSEM), together with the Confederation of Religious of Latin America and the Caribbean (CLAR), publishes embodied reflections that aim to encourage listening to God's cry in forced migrations and the search for answers from religious life in Latin America. These cries are reflected in a unique and diverse way in the articles gathered in this book on the theology of human movement. The articles present forced migrations from a theological, biblical and human perspective, pierced by those cries that emerge from reality and challenge religious life.
According to CLAR's Assistant Secretary, Father Israel Arévalo, this book, like the others published annually by the Ecumene Series, each year with a different theme, “offers content, interpretations of meaning and perspectives to broaden formation and sensitize the public.
mind and heart of church and society leaders”. The articles by experts in the theology of human movement, who study and/or work with migrants and refugees, provide a relevant impulse to promote in the Church the acceptance and attention that the protagonists of these flows need and the formulation of concrete responses, open to involving all the people of Christian communities, not only those who migrate. Previous volumes of the Ecumene Series are available in Portuguese and Spanish:
2021 - Hospitality, Christian community and human mobility
2022 - The Bible and migration
2023 - Living together in religious and migratory plurality
It is hoped that this book, in Portuguese and Spanish, available for free digital distribution, will serve to
to support and motivate local churches and religious congregations.
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