"Advent and Migrants" aims to be a space for reflection on issues of great social and human relevance, with a particular focus on the condition of migrants.

It is an initiative of the International Network of Migrants and Refugees of the UISG, which accompanies us during this time of Advent.

Each week, we will explore a different aspect of their life experience in the light of the Gospel, which guides us on our journey toward Christmas, with the goal of raising awareness and renewing our commitment to those who are forced to leave their homeland.

During the second week, the commentary on the Gospel of Luke (3:1-6) is provided by Sr. Gloria Estela Murúa Valencia, SA.

Faced with the desperate cry of peoples calling for peace, the leaders of nations secure their borders by creating containment walls, structures of repression, security, deportation and xenophobia that re-victimize those who flee violence, emigrate and seek refuge while they set out on a way of the cross in the form of forced displacement.

Ukraine, the United States, the dense jungle of Darien, a Mexican territory, Lampedusa and Albania, the Canary Islands where the canoes of hope reach Tenerife… are “deserts” where the Word of God is coming, theological places that urge us to keep our ears open to their cries to continue weaving threads of hope.

Let the echo of the voices of the desert be heard, multiplying glances, smiles, solidarity that welcome, accompany, heal wounds, create integration processes and save us from indifference.

Jesus comes to bring us peace, all humanity will be called blessed.