Statement by the MIACs movements: "From crisis to conversion, an invitation to a more humane world"
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The International Specialised Catholic Action Movements (Miacs) represent more than 500 movements around the world with a great diversity of countries, cultures and backgrounds. Since the beginning of the Covid pandemic we have been reflecting together on this crisis and wish to share some thoughts and actions.
The pandemic has brutally aggravated pre-existing problems: unemployment, inequalities between gender, between rich and poor, within and between countries, and domestic violence. Various needs including access to healthcare, social security, working conditions, health, food, education, reception of migrants are growing as is the visibility of these problems and the national debt.
The pandemic has made these situations unbearable, as illustrated by the reports of IYCW on the impact of Covid on young workers, FIMARC on farmers and fisherfolk, and MIDADE on the living conditions of children. A system that fails to solve these roblems or to prevent them from worsening, needs to change.
International Migrants' Day: "What is our Human and Christian Responsibility in the Life of a Migrant?
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The migrants occupy a very special place and deserve the greatest attention among others. There are millions of migrants around the world, and the numbers are increasing continuously. One of the vital missions as Catholics is to be in solidarity with the weakest and the suffering of our society. Our confessional allegiances must be challenged by the realities in which we find ourselves. We must free ourselves from institutional bondages. Migration is one of the many expressions of marginalisation that affects the poor. The main reason is because of its compulsory nature and the injustices it represents, migration calls for a commitment to fight against it, in the name of the liberated God.
The global crisis caused by Covid-19 pandemic, resulted in millions of migrants loosing the jobs and to be fled to their own countries penniless. This had affected migrants both physically and mentally. Economic instability is another major woe against dignified human living. The pandemic has reminded us how essential co-responsibility is and that only with the contribution of everyone; even of those groups so often underestimated can we face this crisis. Drawing close to others often means being willing to take risks as so many medical staff have taught us during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Life stronger than anything: Special issue of INFOR - December 2020
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Most movements analyse this time of pandemic as an extension of crisis provoked long time ago by neoliberarl system: a system that crushes the most fragile and the smallest ones. COVID-19 has only amplified the suffering, fears and the poverty. And the first victims are the workers and, among them, the migrants, women, young people, informal sector workers... all this reminds us of the commad of profet Amos: «Woe to him who tramples of Justice!». Let us pray to the Lord that we will not be one of them!
Message of the WMCW to ICYCW/IYCW on the occasion of its founder's birthday, Joseph Cardijn
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