Extracts from speeches of the Holy Father concerning Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: 

• Overview  April 1, 2004 - January 31, 2005

• Overview May 16, 2003 - March 31, 2004

• Overview February 1, 2003 - May 15, 2003

• Overview February 1, 2002 - January 31, 2003
  

• Overview January 1, 2001- January 31, 2002

Documents of the Holy See on Refugees

• Appeal of the Holy Father for the World Refugee Day (Audience, June 19, 2002)
  [Italian]

• Letter of John Paul II to archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran on the occasion of the International Conference "Twenty-first century slavery - the human rights dimension of trafficking in human beings" (May 15, 2002)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
  

• Other interventions ...

Documents and studies of the Dicastery

• First International Meeting of Pastoral Care for the Liberation of Women of the Street (Rome, 20-21 June 2005) 

  • Final Document

               [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] 

• First International Meeting for the Pastoral Care of Street Children (Rome, 25-26 October 2004) 

  • Final Document

               [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

  • Proceedings of the Congress

• XVI^th Plenary Session (2004, May 16-19)

  • Proceedings

• Instruction "Erga migrantes caritas Christi" (The love of Christ towards migrants) (May 3, 2004)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

  • Studies

• Have the human rights and dignity of Migrants and Refugees respected. Interview by Luigi ACCATTOLI with H.E. Msgr. Agostino MARCHETTO

• Presentation of the Message of the Holy Father for the World Migration Day 2003- 2004 - 2005
  • Presentation by H.E. Msgr Stephen Fumio HAMAO, President of the Pontifical Council
    [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
    
  • Introduction by H.E. Msgr. Agostino MARCHETTO, Secretary of the Pontifical Council
    [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
    

  • Introduction by F. Michael BLUME, Undersecretary of the Pontifical Council
    [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• V World Congress for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees (Rome, 17-22 November 2003)

  • Proceedings

• XV^th Plenary Session (2002, April 29 - May 1)

  • Proceedings

• "The Reproductive Health of Refugees". A Note for the Bishops' Conferences (2001)

  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Other documents ...