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100 experts from 80 universities around the world will discuss migration and refugees from today and until Friday at the UCAM

The Campus of the Jerónimos has welcomed this morning the inauguration of the International Congress of the Innocent III Chair, which in its fourth edition has focused on migration and refugees.

The ceremony was attended by Monsignor Robert Joseph Vitillo, Secretary General of the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC);

José Luis Mendoza, president of the Catholic University of Murcia, and Javier Belda, dean of the Faculty of Human, Canonical and Religious Sciences of the UCAM and director of the congress.

During the Congress, which will last until Friday, and involving 100 experts from 80 universities around the world, topics such as particularly vulnerable groups (children and women), European policy, different national responses or the media treatment of migrations, among others.

65 million people

"There are more than 65 million people forced to move around the world, and we have to respond to this, and as the Pope says, give them protection and integrate them in our own countries," said Monsignor Vitillo.

Beyond the laws, he pointed out that it is important to accept these people as persons: "every human person has fundamental, universal rights, and we have to treat them as sons and daughters of God."

On the first global pact for migration recently established by the UN, the secretary general of the International Catholic Migration Commission has assured that it is an important step, "the only agreement on migration in the world".

And has indicated that it will serve as a roadmap to follow in the countries "to accept these people fairly."

For his part, José Luis Mendoza highlighted the scientific and international nature of this Congress, which is being held in collaboration with the Holy See and "which has already become an international benchmark."

With regard to the theme of the same, the president of the UCAM has recalled that the Pope has insisted a lot on this issue, "very concerned about the plight that many families are living who are expelled from their land, they have no chance to live worthily".

And it has appealed to the governments of the nations so that there is a pact "where these people are served with dignity".

The president of the UCAM has offered to Monsignor Vitillo to give free training to the refugees.

"We welcome them with love and with love, as if it were Christ himself," he indicated.

Javier Belda, dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Canonical and Religious Sciences of the UCAM and director of the congress, has indicated that it is necessary to see migration as an opportunity to grow as a society and not as a simple matter of social emergency, and accepting common rules, to welcome refugees to "be part of a society in which it will always be better if each person has his place and nobody is left".

Source: UCAM