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Immigration
at our home - CCU Girona
Last Tuesday, November 18th, 2003 Catalan Jesuit
Ignasi Maria Azinzua gave a talk about immigration at University
Christian Centre in Girona (UCC). Ignasi Maria Azinzua has been
working as a missionary in Chad over the past 32 years. We received
the invitation to attend this lecture from our friends at the
UCC-Girona Maria Àngels Garcia and Cristina Bosch, who
are establishing a group focusing on third world concerns in Girona.
Some of us were able to attend the interesting discussion which
served as a great opportunity to greet our friends.
Ignasi talked about so many things. The tone of
his voice and his facial expressions reflected peace, his message
carried a very special hope that can’t leave you indifferent.
His slide show allowed us to get closer to an unfamiliar country,
Chad, where despite having one of the highest poverty index in
the world, people live with happiness and a sense of community
frequently missed in our stressful first world. He insisted on
the importance of knowing history to realize that our stability
is based on exploitation of poor country, such as Chad, by our
past generations. He also stressed the fact that observation is
the first step towards embracing and loving a distant reality
in our journey of experiencing a different way of life.
The second part of the discussion focused on our
local immigration issue. Ignasi told us that we often have judgments
against ‘the different’ by despising their capacities
and potential, even unconsciously. He presented a different view
by defending the rights of immigrants to seek a better future
outside of their countries of origin. At the end of the session,
he handed us some working materials along with an interesting
conclusion.
We came back home tired but excited with the testimony
of a man who believes in a fair world of solidarity. We were also
happy to meet our friends Cristina and Maria Angels and felt at
home in UCC Girona, although it was our first time there, because
of what we share in our unity in Christ.
Good luck with your third world project. See you
soon!
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