Safe Passage background information sheets

In response to the increasing number of refugees, churches across Europe coordinated by CCME started Safe Passage. Click here for the information leaflet, or read the German leaflet. In November 2014 Christian organisations published Recommendations for the development of safe and legal paths to protection in the European Union. Read more.

Safe Passage: Advocating for a humane asylum and migration policy in Europe

Many churches have been expressing concern about the harsh realities of asylum and migration in Europe – the unacceptable deaths of many of those trying to come to Europe, the realities of poor reception conditions and destitution, widespread exploitation and the difficult circumstances for integration in equality, to name…Read more

Safe Passages to and through Europe – Strengthen protection and support for refugees in Europe

The CCME Executive Committee took note of the current situation regarding refugee protection in Europe at its meeting in Timisoara /Romania 16-18 October 2015. During a conference organised by CCME member AIDROM in cooperation with the Romanian Orthodox Metropoly of Banat, the ExCom discussed how “European Churches (are) responding to….read more; Arabic; Greek

NGOs Call to Expand the Use of Safe and Legal Channels for Refugees

The increasing number of people in need of international protection perishing on their way to safety is a sinister reminder of the limitations of the current international protection regime. Entitlements to the rights recognised by international and regional protection systems, including under the EU’s Common European Asylum System (CEAS), are accessible only to those who manage to…read more

“Have no fear, for I am with you.”

Bible Study by Most Revd Dr Kari Mäkinen, Archbishop of Finland and Turku at the Conference “Have No Fear”: The impact of the global refugee crisis in Europe and European churches’ responses (14-16 June 2016, Lunteren, Netherlands). The event was jointly organised by the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC), the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME) and the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN).

‘Have no Fear’: A Statement

The World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC), the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME) and the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN), recognising a need among member-churches and ecumenical organisations to reflect on responses to the global refugee crisis, organised a conference in Lunteren between 14th and 16th June 2016. The conference brought together more than sixty representatives of…..read more; Dutch; Hungarian