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BISHOP LIN'S ADDRESS DURING ECMI MEETING
My Dear Pastoral Agents, It’s been 20 years now since the first CRBC pastoral letter on Migration was issued. Since then, we have seen many developments with regards to the pastoral care of migrants and new immigrants in Taiwan. I have seen your sacrifices in helping the migrants ...
ICMC contributes to new publication:
Guide to ratification of the International Migrant Workers Convention
Guide to ratification of the International Migrant Workers Convention
Geneva, 30 April 2009 - Marking another step towards improving the protection of migrant workers and members of their families worldwide, the International Catholic Migration Commission has joined with the International Steering Committee for the Campaign for Ratification of the Migrant Rights ...
LETTER FOR THE YEAR FOR PRIESTS (VATICAN CITY)
Dear Priests, The Year for Priests, announced by our beloved Pope Benedict XVI to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the death of the saintly Curé of Ars, St. John Mary Vianney, is drawing near. It will be inaugurated by the Holy Father on the 19th June, the feast of the Sacred Heart ...
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE PASTORAL CARE OF MIGRANTS AND ITINERANT PEOPLE (VATICAN CITY)
PONTIFICIUM CONSILIUM DE SPIRITUALI MIGRANTIUM ATQUE ITINERANTIUM CURA + ANTONIO MARIA VEGLIO President I am please to send the greetings of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People to the Episcopal Commission for MIgrants and Itinerants of Taiwan and ...
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI FOR THE 95th WORLD DAY OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES (2009)
Theme: St. Paul migrant, ‘Apostle of the peoples’ Dear Brothers and Sisters, This year the theme of the Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees is: “St Paul migrant, ‘Apostle of the peoples’”. It is inspired by its felicitous coincidence with the ...
MENT Response to MECO Advisory
MECO，請服務---非打壓！ MECO, Please Serve－Don’t ...
SC STRIKES OUT 'DISCRIMINATORY' PROVISION IN MIGRANT WORKERS LAW 03/31/2009 | 08:26 PM
MANILA, Philippines - The Supreme Court has declared as unconstitutional a provision in the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act that limits the money claims of illegally dismissed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Ruled as unconstitutional was paragraph 5, Section 10 of ...
MECO LABOR ADVISORY # 01, SERIES OF 2009
1. The Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) has issued a policy requiring employers affected by the global financial crisis to pay foreign workers covered by the Labor Standards Law the minimum salary of NT $ 17,280.00 even if the minimum working hours stipulated in the contract are not met. However, as a ...
DALUYAN CARE STATION
Rev. Fr. Eliseo Napiere, MSP, (3rd from left) the Director of the Daluyan Learning Center in Changhua City, and Dr. Austin Ou, Ph.D. (4th from left), the Executive Director of the Taiwan Catholic Mission Foundation (TCMF), received a check replica of NT$ 360,000.00 ...
MIGRANTS' EMPOWERMENT NETWORK IN TAIWAN (MENT)
MENT is a network of Taiwan based non governmental organizations (NGOs) and church based organizations that empower migrant workers to claim their rights. It was founded in June 2003. In 2002 some present MENT members formulated a human rights based contract for migrant domestic workers (DW) ...
MENT discussion regarding ILO Convention on Domestic Workers Situation in Taiwan
A) Problem identification: Gaps in national laws and policies vis a vis women migrants and domestic workers 1) Lack of legal protection Domestic workers and caregivers are not covered by the Labor Standards Law (LSL) At the end of 2008 more than 168,000, ...
LETTER OF PETITION
LET'S SUPPORT IT!
Dear friends,
We are the Taiwan International Workers' Association (TIWA), working for the rights of migrant workers in Taiwan. We urgently need your support! Please join our international signature compaign! Our long ...
REFLECTION ON INSTITUTIONALIZED OPPRESSION:
PETITION FOR A REDUCED SENTENCE FOR THE INJURED WORKER LIU HANGHUANG ON HUMANITARIAN GROUNDS
PETITION FOR A REDUCED SENTENCE FOR THE INJURED WORKER LIU HANGHUANG ON HUMANITARIAN GROUNDS
Background (Preamble): Petition for a Reduced Sentence for the Injured Worker Liu Hanghuang on Humanitarian Grounds On 16 June 2009, Liu Hanghuang, a factory worker in Dongguan, fatally stabbed two of his Taiwanese employers and left a third critically injured. This is definitely an ...
ARCHDIOCESE OF TAIPEI MIGRANTS' COORDINATING TEAM
FR. LEONILO MANTILLA, CS Archdiocesan Coordinator ST. CHRISTOPHER’S CHURCH (TAIPEI, TAIWAN) BECOMES THE CENTER FOR THE MIGRANTS IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF TAIPEI The Missionaries of St. Charles-Scalabrinians took over the management of this Parish from the Columban ...
CRBC PASTORAL LETTER '09
CRBC PASTORAL LETTER click the link
DOCUMENTS
STELLA MARIS
Document on Apostleship of the Sea
MARITIME CASE IN HUALIEN PORT
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF EVENTS OF ‘ALLEGED’ INVOLVEMENT OF VLCC ‘TOSA’ IN A CLOSE QUARTERS SITUATION WITH A TAIWANESE FISHING TRAWLER Tosa is a 299996 dwt VLCC delivered on 31.3.08, built in Japan, registered in Panama and managed by NYK ship management, Singapore. ...
DIOCESAN MIGRANTS' COORDINATING TEAM
FR. PETER O'NIELL, SSC Diocesan Coordinator Hsinchu Catholic Diocese Migrants & Immigrants Service Center (HMISC) Mission Statement: “In a lived response to the life of Jesus, the center strives to promote fair, just and safe working conditions for local and migrant ...
DIOCESAN MIGRANTS' COORDINATING TEAM
FR. ROGER MANALO, CS Diocesan Coordinator Fidelity to the Church’s Solicitude for the Care of the Migrants Fr. Ranulfo Salise, CS The ministry for the care and protection of the migrants is relevant and urgent. I would like to reiterate in this article that the message of the late ...
DIOCESAN MIGRANTS' COORDINATING TEAM
FR. JEAN-PIERRE RICHARD, MEP Diocesan Coordinator The Catholic Migrant Chaplaincy of Hualien or CMCH is a pastoral, humanitarian, and socially-oriented mission program of St. Paul’s Catholic Church, at 34 Min Guo Road, Hualien City. It is designed to cater to the pastoral, spiritual, and ...
UPDATE FROM AOS HUALIEN RE: MARITIME CASE IN HUALIEN
Dear Father LOLOY: Greetings in Christ Jesus! Captain Glen Patrick Aroza, an Indian national, Helmsman Eduardo Mallorca, a Filipino from Oton, Ilo-ilo, and another seaman from Bangladesh, all from the ship M/T Tosa have been temporarily on-hold in Hualien City since April while their ...
NEW UPDATE ON MARITIME CASE IN HUALIEN PORT
Dear Father LOLOY: Greetings in Christ Jesus! After the Sunday Mass yesterday night, our Filipino seaman Eduardo Mallorca and the Indian national Captain Gle Patrick Aroza updated me on their case. I was informed that last week, they have been formally charged already of ...