Our Diocese in Europe has collaborated with USPG in the past to support refugees across Europe. In particular, in 2022 we partnered in an appeal for funds to respond to urgent humanitarian needs in Ukraine and refugee needs in neighbouring countries.
This Lent the Diocese wants to extend this transforming work to include projects which also support refugees from elsewhere, and in other parts of Europe. In their Communiqué, they remind us that “Lent is the time when we remember and re-enact in our worship and our spiritual disciplines the wilderness time of both Jesus and the Israelites. Experiencing the ‘wilderness’ of self-denial from the relative safety and comfort many of us enjoy is very different from the wilderness in which many asylum seekers find themselves, with no sense of when the promised land might be entered and uncertainty about the provision of daily bread.”
Click here to read their Communiqué, together with details of how to donate. In addition Salinas will have a collection box throughout Lent for cash donations to the appeal.