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 […]
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 […]
Rome (NEV), 13th April 2022 – 37 people, mainly women and children, are currently travelling from Poland to Italy as part of an FCEI initiative. “Following two missions to evaluate how best to offer support”, explains Marta Bernardini, coordinator of Mediterranean Hope, refugee and migrant programme of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI), “and […]
Rome, 11th April 2022 – Dambe so in Bambara (one of the languages spoken in West Africa) means “house of dignity” and is the name of the latest community initiative implemented by the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI) in Calabria: a hostel for farmworkers. “Dignity is at the centre of the hostel which Mediterranean Hope, […]
4th April 2022 – The pop-up exhibition on “migrant perspectives and experiences articulated through art” will be launched on Thursday, 7th April at 6.30pm at the Waldensian Church in Piazza Cavour, Rome. The initiative is the result of a series of art labs delivered by English volunteers Karen and Bill Crooks,  with skills as a therapist, artist, […]
Rome (NEV) 1 February 2022 – An art lab for those who have lived through hell in Libya; one of the activities undertaken in recent weeks at FCEI’s House of Many Cultures (Casa delle Culture) in Scicli by those who arrived in Sicily through the first humanitarian corridor from Libya, in November 2021, implemented by Karen e Bill […]
Roma (NEV), 17th November – Translated by Fiona Kendall – Mediterranean Hope’s Etika oranges are back. In recent weeks, FCEI’s migrant and refugee program has restarted its work in the Plain of Gioia Tauro, where staff are working with various organisations to uphold the rights of seasonal labourers. The “Light On Rosarno” project has enabled lights to […]
