1. DICASTERY FOR PROMOTING INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

2. NEW STRUCTURE Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
1st January 2017
Ex Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
Ex Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People
Ex Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers
Ex Pontifical Council COR UNUM
NEW STRUCTURE
Pope Francis
Migrants and Refugees Sector

3. POPE FRANCIS VISION INTEGRAL – HUMAN - DEVELOPMENT
Foundation Theology [Gospel] Social Doctrine of the Church Christian Anthropology
POPE FRANCIS
MOTU PROPRIO AND STATUTES OF THE DICASTERY FOR PROMOTING INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Given in Rome, at Saint Peter’s, on 17 August 2016

4. MISSION
Promoting the scientific and pastoral response of the Holy See to the questions related to: [1] Justice and Pace [2] Migrations [3] Health Care [4] Charitable Works [5] Care of the Creation

5. TASKS
To PROMOTE the Social Teaching of the Church in order to imbue the social, economic and political relations with the spirit of the Gospel…
To STUDY and RESEARCH in the areas of justice and peace, development of peoples, human dignity and human rights, phenomenon of migration and exploitation of migrants, human trafficking and enslavement, imprisonment, torture, capital punishment, disarmament and arms control, armed conflicts, humanitarian law…
To encourage and to coordinate initiatives of the Episcopal Conferences, local Churches, Catholic institutions, to provide effective and appropriate assistance both material and spiritual – if necessary also by means of suitable pastoral structures – to the sick, refugees, exiles, migrants, the stateless, circus workers, nomads, people in need, other itinerant populations, victims of natural disasters…

6. WEBSITE: www.humandevelopment.va
WORKING APPROACH
IN COLLABORATION WITH:
* Episcopal Conferences
* Local Churches and Church Institutions
* Civil Society / Governmental institutions
* International Organizations /Agencies
* Ecumenical and Interreligious Cooperation
THROUGH:
* International/regional conferences/meetings
* Celebrating WORLD DAYS: Peace, Migrants, the Sick, Sea Sunday, International Fisheries Day……
* Publications / Declarations / Statements
* Emergency Interventions
WEBSITE:

7. INTERNAL COLLABORATION
DICASTERY FOR PROMOTING INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
(Sector Migrants and Refugees)
Secretary of State
Roman Curia
Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
Caritas Internationalis

8. Thank you