The Irish Episcopal Commission for Emigrants marks 50 years of the Irish Chaplaincy in Britain with a conference called, “Pastoral Care to Public Policy – Journeying with the Migrant”. The conference will highlight the value of a sustainable pastoral care response to the phenomenon of inward migration in Ireland. A panel of international speakers will examine the global context, as well as current cultural and policy deficits in Ireland.
Speakers will include:
- Members of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference
- Peter Sutherland, Chairman of the UN Global Commission for Migration
- Bishop Nicholas Di Marzio, Bishop of Brooklyn and former Executive Director of Migration and Refugee Service for the U.S. Catholic Conference
- Desmond Cahill, Professor of Intercultural Studies at RMIT (Melbourne Institute of Technology)
- Francis Davis, Von Hügel Institute, University of Cambridge
The conference will take place on 21 – 23 November, 2007 in the Dunboyne Castle Hotel in County Meath.
Contact the conference office at +353 1 5053055 or by email at migrantconference@iecon.ie. For more information, visit www.catholiccommunications.ie.