EWTN Global Catholic Network
Published: 5 May 2013

<GENEVA, 14 May 2013 (ICMC) -- EWTN Global Catholic Network recently met with ICMC Secretary General Johan Ketelers and Treasurer Cardinal George Pell in Rome just after the organization’s annual Governing Committee meeting.

Around the world, people are on the move in search of a better life, fleeing from conflict, persecution, disaster or hunger. Acting upon human solidarity, the International Catholic Migration Commission is dedicated to protecting these particularly vulnerable individuals, regardless of their faith, nationality, ethnicity or race.

“Migration is something which is affecting all societies, wherever you go, whomever you talk to,” says Johan Ketelers. “We all know that people have to be protected in order to be free when they move, in order not be trafficked, not to be forced into labour, and not to be in situations of dependence.”

ICMC, founded over 62 years ago and headquartered in Switzerland, serves the church’s mission to accompany humanity, focusing on the most vulnerable refugees, migrants and internally displaced people around the world.

“It has a very distinguished record,” said Cardinal George Pell, Treasurer ICMC. “ICMC has helped to resettle about 1 million in the United States. Now by any standards, especially for the standards of a comparatively small church organization, I think that is a wonderful contribution.”

See the full interview from 06:35 - 10:05.

-- ICMC Communications Desk