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Brazil Responds to Surging Refugees, Migrants with Operation Welcome
Brazil Responds to Surging Refugees, Migrants with Operation Welcome
June 7, 2014 - Mediterranean Sea / Italy: Italian navy rescues asylum seekers traveling by boat off the coast of Africa. More than 2,000 migrants jammed in 25 boats arrived in Italy June 12, ending an international operation to rescue asylum seekers traveling from Libya. They were taken to three Italian ports and likely to be transferred to refugee centers inland. Hundreds of women and dozens of babies, were rescued by the frigate FREMM Bergamini as part of the Italian navy s Mare Nostrum operation, launched last year after two boats sank and more than 400 drowned. Favorable weather is encouraging thousands of migrants from Syria, Eritrea and other sub-Saharan countries to arrive on the Italian coast in the coming days. Cost of passage is in the 2,500 Euros range for Africans and 3,500 for Middle Easterners, per person. Over 50,000 migrants hav
Catholic center for Venezuelan refugees opens in Brazil with help from U.S.
Feb 7, 2021 catholic news service
Todd Chapman, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, speaks at a new refugee center Feb. 4, 2021, in Brasilia, Brazil. Two Catholic-backed organizations built the center with the help of the U.S. government to host Venezuelan migrants relocating from refugee centers in the Amazon region. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy AVSI Brasil.)
Two Catholic-backed organizations opened a center in Brazil s capital to host Venezuelan migrants relocating from the refugee centers in the Amazon region.
SAO PAULO Two Catholic-backed organizations opened a center in Brazil’s capital to host Venezuelan migrants relocating from the refugee centers in the Amazon region.
Relocation, Venezuela Crisis
Brasília – Operation Welcome (or Operação Acolhida, in Portugese) is the Brazil government s humanitarian response to a historic wave of refugees and migrants arriving from the country’s northern neighbor, Venezuela.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) plays a key role in that effort and last month (January 2021) reached an important milestone, purchasing the 10,000th airline ticket to assist Venezuelan families seeking relocation in Brazil’s south.
Part of that welcome is Brazil’s effort to transfer newly arrived Venezuelans who choose to voluntarily relocate from the northern border one of the country’s less developed regions to cities and states across the country.