{"id":37428,"date":"2019-03-10T07:09:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T23:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/home\/?p=37428"},"modified":"2019-03-10T07:12:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T23:12:46","slug":"church-takes-focus-on-stateless-persons-on-national-migrants-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/2019\/03\/10\/church-takes-focus-on-stateless-persons-on-national-migrants-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Church takes focus on stateless persons on National Migrants Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.19.6″ background_color=”#ffffff” custom_padding=”0px|||”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_image force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”3.20.1″ animation=”off” sticky=”off” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” src=”http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/article_migrants.jpg”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Image Caption” _builder_version=”3.20.1″ text_font=”Arial||||” text_font_size=”12″ text_line_height=”1.3em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”||30px|” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]

The theme of this year\u2019s celebration is \u201cStateless Filipino Children: A Challenge for the Church\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.20.1″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]

MANILA, Philippines – The Catholic Church\u2019s body for migrants urged help for stateless persons, a \u201cdisturbing\u201d global phenomenon affecting thousands of Filipino children.<\/p>\n

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Fr. Restituto Ogsimer, executive secretary of the bishops\u2019 Commission on Migrants and Itinerant People, said that church people must advocate for the rights of stateless people.<\/p>\n

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Just like the way it responds to the asylum seekers and refugees in the Philippines, he said the church is looking and must continue find ways to assist these children.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are the church, let us act now, seek them out and extend our hands the farthest it can reach to care for them, to embrace them and to make them feel loved and recognize their existence in our midst,\u201d Ogsimer wrote in his message for the National Migrants\u2019 Sunday to be observed on March 10.<\/p>\n

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According to him, statelessness challenges both the church of origin and the receiving churches, stressing the need for vigorous campaign to mainstream the discourse on the issue.<\/p>\n

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He also emphasized the need for policies and laws to recognize and promote \u201cjust treatment\u201d and to provide basic material needs for them especially the young.<\/p>\n

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Current statistics cover 3.7 million stateless people in 78 countries, while the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that at least 10 million people globally could be stateless.<\/p>\n

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In Malaysia\u2019s Sabah state, it is believed that more than 10,000 children are born to Filipino migrant parents who entered and worked in the country without proper documents.<\/p>\n

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Malaysian immigration law does not grant legal status to children of immigrants.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn effect, the children are not registered and became victims of conflict in nationality laws and are in statelessness status; putting them in a more vulnerable situation,\u201d Ogsimer said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey cannot even be enrolled in formal school for proper education; and have no access to basic health care,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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As of 2015, reported statistics showed that some 40 percent of the world\u2019s stateless people \u2013 more than 1.4 million \u2013 were living in Southeast Asia, including about 7,138 in the Philippines.<\/p>\n

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It was in 1987 when the bishops initiated the celebration of the National Migrants\u2019 Sunday to promote awareness in the church and society on the issues and concerns linked to overseas Filipino migration.<\/p>\n

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The annual event not only paid tribute to millions of overseas Filipino workers and their families left behind but also highlighted the church\u2019s effort to help them cope with the effects of labor migration on their lives.<\/p>\n

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