Jesuit refugee service
The Jesuit Refugee Service (Jesuit Refugee Service) is a charitable organization of the Jesuits ( "Society of Jesus"). The Germany office, which has existed in Berlin-Charlottenburg since 1996 in the vicinity of the parish church of St. Canisius , is part of the Europe region .
The Jesuit Refugee Service is involved in Berlin , Eisenhüttenstadt , Essen and Bavaria in pastoral care in detention centers , as well as in advising on residence problems. The organization supports communities that grant refugees church asylum with legal issues. The director of the German Jesuit refugee service is Father Caus Pfuff SJ, who took over from Fridolin Pflüger SJ in summer 2018 . Pfuff is also a refugee pastor in the Archdiocese of Berlin and a representative of the Archdiocese in the Berlin Hardship Commission . The Jesuit Refugee Service is a founding member of the Catholic Forum Life in Illegality, which campaigns for the social rights of people without residence status . He is also the initiator of a deportation observation at the new major Berlin airport.
The legal entity of the Jesuit Refugee Service Germany is the German Province of the Jesuit KdöR , based in Munich.
history
The organization was founded on November 14, 1980 in response to the Society of Jesus to the ever-worsening global refugee problem . The foundation was an initiative of the then General Superior of the Jesuit Order, Fr. Pedro Arrupe SJ, in view of the misery of the Vietnamese boat refugees . According to the Jesuits' self-image, the promotion of justice is a necessary part of serving the faith. In 2013, the 1,200 employees looked after more than 615,000 refugees and migrants in over 50 countries. Internationally, the aid organization, which has been registered as a foundation of the Vatican State since March 19, 2000, was headed from 2007 to 2015 by the German Jesuit Fr. Peter Balleis SJ. The current director is Fr. Thomas Smolich SJ from the United States.
Publications
- Habbe u. a .: Protection interrupted. The Dublin Regulation's Impact on Asylum Seekers' Protection - national report Germany (The DIASP project) (PDF file 2.51 MB), June 2013
- Habbe u. a .: Avoiding detention pending deportation - alternatives in Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom (PDF file 681 kB), April 2012
- Habbe u. a .: Tormenting waiting - How detention pending deportation makes people sick. (PDF file 746 kB) Summary and country report for Germany as part of the Civil Society Report on the Detention of Vulnerable Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants in the European Union (The DEVAS Project), July 2010
- Frido Pflüger SJ (ViSdP) and Dr. Dorothee Haßkamp (editor): JRS info letter ( appears every two to three months ) (online on the website under "News")
Web links
- www.jrs-germany.org - Website Jesuit Refugee Service Germany
- www.jrs.net - Website Jesuit Refugee Service International (English)
- www.jrseurope.org - Jesuit Refugee Service Europe website (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Catholic Forum Living in Illegality
- ↑ Berlin urgently needs a deportation observation (PDF; 31 kB) - press release of June 8, 2009
- ↑ 30 years of Jesuit refugee service ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Website of the German Province of the Jesuits, accessed on July 16, 2013
- ↑ Decree 4 of the 32nd General Congregation of the Society of Jesus (1974/75)
- ↑ 2012 Annual Report Jesuit Refugee Service. ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.6 MB) p. 7
- ↑ Who we are , Thomas H Smolich SJ ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Jesuit Refugee Service website , accessed May 6, 2017
