Rome, 11 April 2024 – The Mediterranean Hope team was delighted to learn that it was one of four recipients chosen by staff of the Canadian Embassy in Rome to benefit from their personal fundraising efforts over the course of the last year. MH was invited to attend a reception at the Canadian Embassy on […]
Rome (NEV), 5 February 2024 – This morning the Nave Vulcano, the Navy hospital ship, docked at La Spezia (Italy) harbour with 62 Palestinian refugees, including 32 minors, 14 of them in need of specific medical and health care. Most of them are families who most of them are families who fled to Egypt from […]
Rome (NEV), 9th November 2023 – Fiona Kendall, from Scotland, who has for almost six years been seconded as European and Legal Affairs Advisor to Mediterranean Hope by the Church of Scotland, Methodist Church in Britain and Global Ministries, is since yesterday, 8th November, the new moderator of the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe […]
Rome (NEV), 19th October 2023 – Interview to Dr. Elizabeta Kitanovic, Programme Officer / Advocacy and Dialogue of the Conference of European Churches (KEK). *For italian version click here* How is the international community in Brussels living and what are the main social issues at the moment? All sorts of conflicts in daily evolving geopolitical […]
Rome (NEV), 19th October 2023 – Interview to Dr. Elizabeta Kitanovic, Programme Officer / Advocacy and Dialogue of the Conference of European Churches (KEK). *For italian version click here* How is the international community in Brussels living and what are the main social issues at the moment? All sorts of conflicts in daily evolving geopolitical […]
Rome (NEV), 4th october 2023 – At the shrine of Our Lady of Porto Salvo, at 6pm, an ecumenical commemoration, ten years after the shipwreck in which 368 people died. “Martin Luther King said: ‘I don’t fear the cruelty of the bad but the silence over that of the good’. Looking at the history of […]
Roma (NEV), 8th May 2023 – Landeskirchenrat Albrecht Philipps, Ecumenical Secretary of the Protestant Church of Westphalia, and Katja Breyer, Deputy Director of the Oikos Institute for Mission and Ecumenism, together with Marta Bernardini, Coordinator of Mediterranean Hope, visited working places of the organisation in Calabria and on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. Mediterranean Hope […]
Rome (NEV), May 2023 – Jim Winkler, former president of the National Council of Christian Churches in the USA (NCCCUSA), answers our questions to better understand the implications of disaffiliations from the United Methodist Church (UMC). With its 12 million members, the denomination represents one of the major voices of the American main line Protestant churches. […]
By NEV Agency – 21st March 2023 Rome (NEV), 21st March 2023 – From 15th 19th March, representatives of the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC), the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME), German institutions and churches, and the World Council of Churches (WCC) met for four days in Hamburg to exchange experiences and ideas on migration […]
Roma (NEV), 19th March 2023 – [article translated by Fiona Kendall, photo @Pietro Romeo, @Riforma] Waldensian pastor Daniele Garrone, President of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (“FCEI”), spoke today at the meeting with the Pontiff in the Aula Nervi in the Vatican: “Let us continue to do our part for those who are […]
Rome (NEV), 23 February 2023 – Today, Thursday 23 February, a group of 97 Afghan refugees arrived from Pakistan as part of the Humanitarian Corridors programme carried out by Caritas Italiana (on behalf of CEI – Italian Episcopal Conference), FCEI (Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy), the Waldensian Board and the Community of Sant’Egidio. This […]
Rome (NEV), December 19, 2022 – We interviewed rev. Elijah Brown, General Secretary of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA), who is in Italy these days. His Italian journey: an opportunity for sharing and dialogue. What are the most significant stages of your visit? It has been an honor to join the Baptist World Alliance delegation […]
Rome (NEV), 27th July 2022 – 217 refugees sheltering in Pakistan since last August arrived today, 27th July, on a flight from Islamabad. Their entry to Italy was made possible thanks to a memorandum of undertstanding with the Italian State signed on 4th November 2021 by the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy, Waldensian Board, […]
Rome (NEV), 9th June 2022 (translated by Fiona Kendall) – “Flamingo Loophole” will be the name of the new therapeutic climbing centre to be inaugurated on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th June in Bihać, in Bosnia, by Mediterranean Hope, migrant and refugee programme of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy. “The idea,” explains Niccolò Parigini, Mediterranean […]
Roma (NEV), 26th May 2022 – Italy’s implementation of humanitarian corridors has won international renown and the Mediterranean Hope team’s experience of managing those corridors has earned it a seat in policy discussions on how migration can be better managed in Italy and beyond. MH is currently part of a European consortium tasked with developing a […]
