I TOOK UP THE CASE OF THE STRANGER (Job 29:16) Towards a Theology of Human Mobility in Africa
Today human mobility in Africa poses seric,us challenges to the Catholic Church, whose doors are often those knocked daily by migrants and refugees, seeking material and spiritual answers to their plight. The Church is called to promote a different perspective. where asylum, displacement and migration become a component of dialogue among cultures and societies, and where people on the move are viewed as fellow human beings. Moreover, the Church is expected to question a model of development, which ignores inequalities and disparities that result in displacing people from their home, environment and heritage. The Church is demanded to build a Christian community capable of appreciating differences while celebrating the unity of the faith.
Indice
7 – Introduction – FABIO BAGGIO
15 – PART I: MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT
17 – The Migration-Development Nexus: A Theoretical Framework – FABIO BAGGIO
29 – The Migration-Development Nexus in Ghana: Evidences and Reality from the Human and Social Sciences Approach – DELALI MARGARET I BADASU
45 – Common Good, Migration and Development: Theological and Pastoral Reflections from an African Perspective – DESTIN MOUENE NDZOROMBE
57 – Migration, Development And Human Promotion – Theological-Political Implications in the African Reality – YVON CHRISTIAN ELENGA
65 – Migration, Development and Mission in Africa: Contemporary Challenges to Evangelisation – JONAS KOUDISSA
75 – Migrants’ Faces amid Borders, Privation and Paradox: ANNE BEATRICE FAYE
85 – Small Christian Communities (SCC): A Possible Solution to the Issue of Migration and Development?
95 – The Migration and Development Nexus in Light of the Experience of Joseph, Son of Jacob, in Egypt: Philosophical-Theological Reflections and Socio-Political Perspectives – GEORGE NJILA JIBIKILAYI J.
107 – PART II: MIGRATION AND CONFLICTS
109 – The Asylum Regime in Africa – SERGIO CARCIOTTO
119 – Forced Migration and Asylum in Africa: Social and Political Challenges JEAN BAPTISTE SOUROU
139 – Conflict Management and Responsible Migration: The Example of Abraham (Gen 13). What Lessons for Today? – ANDRE KABASELE MUKENGE
151 – African Migration: A Call for the Church – MESMIN-PROSPER MASSENGO
163 – Migration Intervention Practices from the Grassroots in the Ethiopian Catholic Church – BEKELE MOGES KIDANE
177 – Jesuit Refugee Service Eastern Africa Programmes And Experiences in the Field of Forced Migration – BEATRICE GIKONYO
191 – HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CONFERENCE – FABIO BAGGIO
195 – BIO-SKETCHES
196 – Editors
197 – Contributors