KINGNEWSWIRE – The Church of Scientology in Rome organized a conference on October 4 in its Auditorium in Via della Maglianella 375, to celebrate the National Day of Remembrance and Welcoming in order to humanize the processes of welcoming and integration under the banner of human rights.
On Friday, October 4, the Church of Scientology in Rome hosted a conference on migration, reception and integration on the occasion of the Day of Memory and Welcoming, convened every October 3 by Law No. . 45 of 2016 as a national holiday in Italy, to commemorate the 398 victims, migrants, following a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea in 2013.
The conference received as media partners the partnerships of Mediatori Mediterranei, the La Collina Community, the Human Rights and Tolerance association, the Art and Culture for Human Rights association, the Center for IDOS Studies – Statistical File on Immigration and the Confronti Study Center and Magazine. In particular, the IDOS has granted the possibility of downloading the immigration file for the year 2023 free of charge from the website. www.dossierimmigrazione.it throughout the duration of the conference.
The first panel was moderated by the director of the Confroni Study and Research Center, Claudio Paravati. Dr Béatrice Covassifort, from her experience at the Commission of the European Union, intervened and highlighted three key points for managing the phenomenon: the promotion of regular migration, the reform of the right to citizenship and interreligious and intercultural dialogue. Dr Alessandra Morelli, former delegate of the High Commissioner for Refugees to the United Nations, called for a policy of care and faces that respects human dignity and promotes reception and integration in migration management. The creation of an agency operating within the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, in collaboration with the Ministries of the Interior, Foreign Affairs, Health and Labor, was his proposed resolution. Closing the panel was a video message from Don Mario Farci who, from a theological perspective, illustrated how migration is a structural factor of humanity, revealing its nature as a traveling people and its relationship with God who walks with her.
During the second session, Professor Di Sciullo. President of the IDOS Study and Research Center, retraced the historical stages which led to the perception of the migratory phenomenon as a “social emergency” and stressed that foreigners are rather a resource, producing 9% of the national gross domestic product and therefore recalled the need for laws that consider the phenomenon as a resource and those who will be affected by it as worthy people who want to live legally.
Professor Carlo Pilia, president of Mediatori Mediterranei, spoke about certain European projects and explained the lack of university courses for cultural mediators. He proposed to train our Mediterranean mediators as excellences ready both theoretically and practically to face the reality of migration in the places where migrants live and need to integrate.
Recently, Professor Martin Nkafu, professor of African philosophy at the Lateran University and president of the Nkemnkia International Foundation, proposed replacing the term “migration” with the concept of “human mobility” and working, from schools onwards, to educating young people for “global citizenship”, the principle of “internationality”, creating this cultural change in a world that has now changed. Professor Nakfu invited those present to consider that if one was born in Italy, one is certainly an Italian citizen, but also a “citizen of the world”. In conclusion, the testimonies of those who are on the front lines of the ‘welcome.
Moderated by Don Ettore Cannaver, creator and director of the La Collina Community, among the speakers were Dr. Lilia Adriane Azevedo, expert in immigrant rights and human rights owner of Casa Helena (Center for Studies and Assistance at Work, in family and immigrants), Professor Salameh AshourImam, lecturer in Islamic culture and Arabic language, spokesperson for the Palestinian communityDr Félix AdadoPoet, author of the book “The most famous book in the world”, and Dr Ettore Cannavera, director of the Community of La Collina. Felix Adado, poet, writer and linguistic and cultural mediatorDr Daniel Siguajournalist and international correspondent, founder of TCG News, the first Latin American news agency in Italy and Europe, Dr Hassan BatalIntercultural mediator, Dr Doreid MohamadPresident of the Sardinia Lebanon Association bridge to the Mediterranean. From the audience came the speeches of lawyer Angela Susanna Tosi, creator and director of the Avvocati Cittadinanza project, and Gemma Vecchio, President of Casa Afrique. It is clear from their interventions that these are individuals endowed with a dignity which, if recognized as essential, opens the door to good integration.
It emerged from the conference that we must always ask ourselves why a person decides to leave their place of origin. The answers are numerous and the exact answer is essential to understanding how to manage the reception and integration of each person. Another element is that migration is a structural phenomenon and not an emergency, and cultural change that educates generations about human rights and respect for the dignity of the person must be placed at the basis of all policies, laws and regulations concerning this area of social life.
In conclusion, a video was shown on Article 1 of the United Nations Universal Declaration, which enshrines equal dignity and rights for all. This is one of 30 videos that are part of Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) educational materials that aim to teach young people about human rights and inspire them to become advocates for peace. YHRI is now a global movement, with hundreds of groups around the world, supported by the Church of Scientology and inspired by L. Ron Hubbard, other religious organizations and civil society.
Originally published in The European Times.
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