by Ricardo Benjumea | Feb 23, 2024 | Lenten Season, Vedruna, Vedruna Communication
The second Sunday of Lent coincides with the second anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, a conflict that has left nearly six million refugees and between three and four million internally displaced persons. As Vedruna Family we have joined this year the spiritual...
by Ricardo Benjumea | Feb 21, 2024 | Justice and Peace (JPIC)
It has been 10 years since the tragic event of February 6, 2014 in which 14 migrants had their lives taken while trying to cross into Spanish territory from Morocco. I have been fortunate to join and express the collective rage and pain in Ceuta on February 3 and to...
by Ricardo Benjumea | Jan 14, 2024 | Justice and Peace (JPIC)
Visit of a Barcelona community to the Open Arms ship, which has rescued some 70,000 migrants from drowning in the waters of the Mediterranean, and faces serious barriers, especially from Italy, to continue carrying out its mission. A few weeks ago, some sisters of the...
by Ricardo Benjumea | Jan 10, 2024 | SOLIVE, Vic Foundation
Journalist and filmmaker Ana Palacios is the author of the photographs in “Niños esclavos. La puerta de atrás”, an exhibition that can be visited at the Salesian Missions Museum in Madrid (Spain) until March 27. Palacios toured several centers that work...
by Ricardo Benjumea | Jan 4, 2024 | Justice and Peace (JPIC)
At the request of several people, at the beginning of this year 2024, we offer you this resource for a long time of reflection and prayer on peace, that “supreme aspiration of all humanitythroughout history”[1]. We believe that it can be used mainly on an...
