Durres Trieste

August 4 – August 17, 2025
Migration challenges

 

Program

Sunday, August 3, 2025 

Youth reception and overnight stay in Tirana

 

Monday, August 4, 2025 

9am-11am: Free time and last arrivals 

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Presentation by Father Alexis Leproux & 1st Team Time

1 p.m.-2 p.m. Lunch at the Curia: presentation of the Tirana team

2:00-5:30 p.m. Visit to the Great Mosque of Tirana (Xhamia e Madhe), the Orthodox Cathedral of Tirana and the Youth Center of Piramida (Warren Vella) 

5:30-7:30 p.m.: Conference: Migration in the Albanian context at the Curia / Tirane

7:30 p.m.: Dinner at the Curia

 

TO READ

“The road we carry” Poem By Bernard Caruana OP  

 

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

9 a.m.: Team time

10 a.m.: Departure for Durrës

11:30: Arrival in Durrës, luggage drop-off and visit of the Bel Espoir 

12-2 p.m.: Crew presentation and lunch on the boat 

2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Free time

4-6:30 p.m.: Conference, Migration in Albania: “A Journey Across the Sea in Search of Hope”

7:30 p.m.: Dinner at Guardia Di Finanza, Port of Durres

 

 

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

9:30-10:30: Mass celebrated by Archbishop Arjan Dodaj at Santa Lucia Cathedral 

11 a.m.-12 p.m.: Workshop at the Benedictine Sisters' School

1 p.m.: Lunch with young Albanians at the Sisters' School 

2:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.: Conclusion of the conference

3 p.m.: Return to the Bel Espoir and departure

 

_photos by Candela Maria Copparoni_

 

Thursday, August 7 – Wednesday, August 14: Navigation to Trieste

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Arrival in Trieste in the afternoon

6 p.m.: Meeting in Piazza Libertà with diocesan witnesses from Caritas and volunteers from associations serving migrants on the Balkan route

7:30 p.m.: Dinner in a parish and evening in Piazza Unità d'Italia 

 

Friday, August 15, 2025

9:30-11:00: Visit to some significant places in Trieste 

11 a.m.: Departure for Muggia

12 p.m.: Visit to Muggia

12:30 p.m.: Lunch

2 p.m.: Meeting with the priest of Muggia Vecchia responsible for welcoming Ukrainians 

3 p.m.: Meeting with the Bishop of Trieste, Mgr. Enrico Trevisi

6 p.m.: Mass for the Solemnity of the Assumption at the Basilica of Muggia Vecchia 

7:30 p.m.: Dinner and departure for Trieste 

Saturday, August 16

9 a.m.: Visit to places related to peace education and meeting with civil authorities 

11 a.m.: Meeting of the community of Sant'Egidio 

12:30 p.m.: Lunch 

2 p.m.: Meeting with the Focolare movement and the associations that follow the “Beacons of Peace” program

 

Sunday, August 17

Departures of young people

 

About

The sixth stage of the MED 25 Le Bel Espoir odyssey will listen to migrants who, at the risk of their lives, cross the sea or the mountains, in search of a space of peace to recover their dignity. Faced with a high-risk demographic winter, some Mediterranean societies are faced with the immense challenge of welcoming people uprooted by war, famine or more simply inhabited by a dream, that of a better life. Against indifference and fear, attentive listening to their journey sheds light on the right decisions that must be taken to prevent this cultural cradle from becoming a cemetery. In the dual dynamic of the help required by the dangers of the sea and the mountains, and the hospitality that characterizes the value of a society, fair and common orientations for Mediterranean peoples can be defined.

“At a crucial time when migration policies are being revised in many regions and countries, it is essential that security concerns do not prevail over the human rights of migrants”, Felipe González Morales, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of migrants.

 

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