Mediterranean Hope – Newsletter April 2019

The Mediterranean Sea the Sole Witness: The Story of Ons

Rome (NEV), March 26th, 2019 –The “Lo sguardo dalle frontiere” (A Look from the Border) editorial is written by the operators of Mediterranean Hope (MH), the project promoted by the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI). This week’s “Look” comes from the Observatory in Lampedusa. The Mare Jonio vessel has just entered the port of Lampedusa…  Read more…

Sea Watch refugees in Malta, Protestant Churches: “We realise that they will not arrive”

Rome (NEV/CS22), 10 April 2019 – The president of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI), pastor Luca Maria Negro, and the moderator of the Waldensian Board, pastor Eugenio Bernardini, have realised that the portion of refugees rescued in January by the Sea Watch NGO … Read more…

Francesco Piobbichi: “I draw the barbed wire that is sewn on the souls of migrants”

By Alessandro Puglia via Vita, April 19th, 2019 Francesco Piobbichi is the operator of Mediterranean Hope who decided to narrate the frontier through his crayons. He is the author of the barbed wire wrapped feather decorating the grave of Segen, the migrant only weighed thirty kilos who died after landing in Pozzallo. Read more…

The Plane

Rome (NEV), 17 April 2019 – The “Lo sguardo dalle frontiere” (A Look from the Border) editorial is written by operators of Mediterranean Hope (MH), the migrant project of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI). This week’s “Look” comes from the House of Cultures in Scicli.  Read more…