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April 21, 2015
In This Issue
Loss of a Great Friend to AOS-USA.
Up to 700 Feared Dead after Migrant Boat sinks.
Pope: Doomed migrants were looking for happiness.
Christians thrown from Migrant Boat.
EU Proposes 10 Point Migrant Action Plan.
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(Psalm 107:23-24)


  Loss of a Great Friend to AOS-USA

Dear Friends,

As we prepare for the AOS-USA Annual Conference which kicks off on Tuesday, we were deeply saddened to learn of the loss of our dear friend, mariner member, and former Vice-President of AOS-USA, Mr. Chris Fogarty.

Chris called me several years ago, to find out how he could join AOS-USA as a Mariner member. As we spoke, it became clear to me that this was a mariner with a deep Faith, and a deep love for his Catholic Faith.

He took time to research the Chaplet of Our Lady Star of the Sea and to write it out and document it for us. It was one of his many works of heart which showed attention to detail, and his attraction to deepening his own Faith and knowledge of the Catholic Church.

I found him to be a great sounding Board for me, and for our Administrative Board. He was a man that had an inner decency and truly wished to bring people to work together.

Chris was excited about the project to place a marble roundel of Our Lady Star of the Sea in the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, and gave generously to the fund to make it happen.

Over the years, he became an integral part of our AOS-USA Family, and we all enjoyed various travels together, attending Conferences, Board meetings and the World Congress in Rome.

A large group of us traveled to Rome together, and though we arrived exhausted from the trip and looking pretty haggard, we all hurriedly deposited our luggage at the hotel and ran to the Vatican just in time for the Angelus. Chris was silent most of that time, so humbled to be there at the Center of his Catholic "Home".
Chris Fogarty, Jon Furukawa & Fr Sinclair Oubre during the AOS World Congress in Rome.


He has journeyed on before us, but we look forward to being with him once again to enjoy the greatest trip of all.

May Our Lady Star of the Sea give Comfort to his family, and Chris, we wish you Fair Winds and Following Seas.

Doreen M. Badeaux
Secretary General
       

 

Up To 700 Feared Dead After Migrant Boat Sinks Off Libya
Courtesy: Huffington Post
By: Reuters, Antonio Denti
19 April 2015

PALERMO, Italy April 19 (Reuters) - As many as 700 people were feared dead after a fishing boat packed with migrants capsized off the Libyan coast overnight in what officials said may be the Mediterranean's worst disaster as thousands flee poverty and war to Europe.

 

Top officials in Europe, whose recently-downsized border protection program has been criticized by international aid groups, said urgent action was needed. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said foreign ministers would discuss the issue at a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday.

 

If confirmed, the death toll would bring to 1,500 the total number of dead since the beginning of the year resulting from the flow of migrants seeking to flee insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.

 

Only last week, around 400 migrants were reported to have died attempting to reach Italy from Libya when their boat capsized.

 

On Sunday twenty eight people were rescued and 24 bodies recovered from the 20 meter-long vessel, which sank around 70 miles from the Libyan coast, south of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, the Italian coast guard said.

 

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said later that around 50 people had been rescued of the 700 reported to be on board.

 

"They are literally trying to find people alive among the dead floating in the water," Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said.

 

French President Francois Hollande said the EU had to do more, telling Canal+ television that rescue and disaster prevention efforts needed "more boats, more over flights and a much more intense battle against people trafficking."

 

"More EU countries must take responsibility for the refugee situation," said Sweden's Minister for Justice and migration Morgan Johansson, who called for an expansion of the EU's Triton border protection program, which only operates within 30 miles of the Italian coast.

The previous search and rescue operation "Mare Nostrum" was canceled last year because of the cost and because some politicians said it encouraged migrants to depart by raising their hopes of being rescued.

"This disaster confirms how urgent it is to restore a robust rescue-at-sea operation and establish credible legal avenues to reach Europe," said UNHCR head Antonio Guterres.

 

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi called for an emergency meeting of European Union leaders this week, saying "We cannot remain insensitive when every day there is a massacre in the Mediterranean.".

The German government's representative for migration, refugees and integration, Aydan Ozoguz, said that with more arrivals likely to arrive as the weather turned warmer, emergency rescue missions should be restored.

 

"It was an illusion to think that cutting off Mare Nostrum would prevent people from attempting this dangerous voyage across the Mediterranean," she said.

 

"LOOKING FOR A BETTER LIFE"

Italian officials said 17 vessels from the navy and coast guard, merchant ships in the area and a Maltese patrol boat, as well as aircraft from the navy and coast guard, were involved in the search-and-rescue operation, which was being coordinated by the Italian coast guard in Rome.

There was still no decision on where the survivors and the bodies that had been recovered would be taken.

 

The boat is believed to have capsized when the migrants shifted to one side of the overcrowded vessel as a merchant ship approached.

"The first details came from one of the survivors who spoke English and who said that at least 700 people, if not more, were on board. The boat capsized because people moved to one side when another vessel that they hoped would rescue them approached," said Carlotta Sami, a UNHCR spokeswoman.

 

Pope Francis, who has spoken out repeatedly on the migrant crisis, repeated his call for quick and decisive action from the international community.

 

"They are men and women like us, our brothers seeking a better life, starving, persecuted, wounded, exploited, victims of war. They were looking for a better life, they were looking for happiness," he told tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square for his Sunday noon address.

Aid groups have called for the opening of a "humanitarian corridor" to ensure the safety of the migrants but in Italy there were also calls to stop the boats from leaving and even to destroy them.

 

The leader of the anti-immigrant Northern League party, Matteo Salvini, called for an immediate naval blockade of the coast of Libya while Daniela Santanche, a prominent member of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party said Italy's navy must "sink all the boats."

 

Libya's lawless state, following the toppling of former leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, has left criminal gangs of migrant smugglers free to send a stream of boats carrying desperate migrants from Africa and the Middle East.

 

Around 20,000 migrants have reached the Italian coast this year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates. That is fewer than in the first four months of last year, but the number of deaths has risen almost nine-fold.

 

"A tragedy is unfolding in the Mediterranean, and if the EU and the world continue to close their eyes, it will be judged in the harshest terms as it was judged in the past when it closed its eyes to genocides when the comfortable did nothing," Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said.

(Additional reporting by Philip Pullella, Paolo Biondi and Gavin Jones in Rome, Robin Emmott in Brussels, Chris Scicluna in Malta, Noah Barkin in Berlin, Laurence Frost in Paris,; writing by James Mackenzie and Gavin Jones; editing by Sophie Walker)
 

 

Pope: Doomed migrants were looking for happiness
Courtesy: CNA/EWTN News
By: Ann Scheinble
19 April 2015

 

Vatican City

Pope Francis led a moment of prayerful silence on Sunday for the hundreds of migrants killed off the coast of Lampedusa, saying they were like us in their search for happiness.

 

"They are men and women like us, our brothers who seek a better life: hungry, persecuted, wounded, exploited, victims of war," the Pope said in off-the-cuff remarks. "They were looking for happiness."

 

The Pope was speaking during his weekly Regina Caeli address to the crowds in Saint Peter's Square, some twelve hours following the accident.

 

Hundreds of people are feared dead after the boat carrying as many as 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, according to the Italian coastguard.

 

The BBC reports that the ship went down at around midnight local time south of the Italian island of Lampedusa, a major entry point for migrants from northern Africa.

 

"I express my deepest sorrow in the face of such a tragedy, and assure my remembrance in prayer for the lost and their families," Pope Francis said in his Apr. 19 address.

 

He invited those in the crowd to take a moment of prayerful silence for those killed in last night's boat accident before leading the crowds in praying the Hail Mary.

 

The pontiff then made a "heartfelt appeal" to the international community to act "decisively and promptly", in order to prevent similar tragedies from being repeated.

Thousands have made their way to Lampedusa from Africa over the years, with scores of migrants dying en route, often due to factors such as overcrowding on the boats.

 

Today's tragedy comes less than two years after a boat carrying 500 migrants sank off coast of Lampedusa, killing at least 300.

 

Pope Francis had visited the island a few months earlier, in July 2013, praying for the migrants, both living and those who perished en route.

 

The BBC reports that some 900 migrants are believed to have died since the beginning of 2015 trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.  

 

Before leading the crowds in reciting the Regina Caeli, Pope Francis reflected on the readings for the Third Sunday of Easter, centering his address on the theme of "witness."

 

In the first reading, Pope Francis cited the words of St. Peter: "But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses." (Acts 3:14-15).

 

Turning to the Gospel, the Pope reflected on Jesus telling the disciples that they were "witnesses" of His death and resurrection.

 

"Every baptized person is called to give witness, with (his) words and life, that Jesus is risen, that Jesus is alive and present among us."

 

The identity and mission of the witness, Pope Francis said, is summarized into three words: to see, to remember, and to recount.

 

"The content of the Christian witness is not a theory, not an ideology, or a complex system of precepts and prohibitions or a moralism," the pontiff said.

 

Rather: "It is a message of salvation, a concrete event, even a Person: It is Christ risen, living, and only savior of everyone."

 

The witness of a Christian is "all the more credible," when it shines through a way of living that is "evangelical, courageous, gentle, peaceful, merciful."

 

On the other hand, a Christian who seeks comfort, vanity, selfishness, while becoming "deaf and blind the question of 'resurrection'", Pope Francis asked, "how can he communicate the living Jesus," the "liberating power of Jesus alive and his infinite tenderness?"

 

Pope Francis concluded his Regina Caeli address by asking Mary's intercession to help Christians become "witnesses of the Lord's Resurrection, carrying to the persons who we encounter the Easter gifts of Joy and Peace."

 
  
 Christians Thrown from Migrant Boat

Courtesy: Maritime Executive  

16 April 2015   

  

 

Italian police arrested 15 African men suspected of throwing about a dozen Christians from a migrant boat in the Mediterranean on Thursday, as the crisis off southern Italy intensified.

 

Forty-one more deaths were reported in a separate incident.

 

Police in the Sicilian capital Palermo said they had arrested the men, from Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal, after survivors reported they had thrown 12 people from Nigeria and Ghana to their deaths and threatened other Christians.

The 15 were arrested on charges of multiple homicide motivated by religious hatred.

 

"The motive for the resentment was traced to their faiths," police said. "Twelve people are said to have drowned in the waters of the Mediterranean, all of them Nigerian and Ghanaian."

 

The survivors' account underscores the rising chaos in the Mediterranean, which thousands of migrants, many fleeing war and deprivation in Africa, try to cross in rickety boats in the hope of a better life in Europe.

 

Around 20,000 migrants have reached the Italian coast this year, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) estimates, fewer than arrived in the first four months of last year, but the number of deaths has risen almost nine-fold.

Almost 450 people are now thought to have died this week after rescued migrants brought to the Sicilian port of Trapani on Thursday said 41 others travelling with them had drowned.

 

About 400 died earlier this week when passengers crowded to one side of their boat, causing it to capsize, survivors said.

 

Traffickers take advantage of a breakdown of order in Libya to charge some $1,000 for every migrant to whom they give a passage. Some also turn violent, threatening coast guards with machine guns to avoid having their boats confiscated.

 

The murder suspects were among almost 100 migrants brought to Palermo on Wednesday. The arrests were made on the basis of testimony from about 10 survivors, who said they had left Libya in a rubber boat on Tuesday, police said.

 

Italy phased out a dedicated maritime search and rescue operation called "Mare Nostrum" or "Our Sea" late last year, making way for a European Union border control mission.

 

The EU operation, called Triton, has been criticized by humanitarian groups and Italian authorities as it has a much smaller budget and a narrower remit than Mare Nostrum.

   

  EU Proposes 10 Point Migrant Action Plan       

 

 

The European Union proposed doubling the size of its Mediterranean search and rescue operations on Monday, as the first bodies were brought ashore of some 900 people feared killed in the deadliest shipwreck while trying to reach Europe.

Three other rescue operations were underway on Monday to save hundreds more migrants in peril on overloaded vessels making the journey from the north coast of Africa to Europe.

 

ARRESTS MADE

Italian authorities arrested two survivors of Sunday's migrant boat disaster on suspicion of people trafficking, Infrastructure Minister Graziano Delrio said on Tuesday after the men arrived in the Sicilian port of Catania.

 

Italian police interviewed 27 survivors of the wreck as they were brought to Italy on a coast guard vessel. Delrio said Catania state prosecutor Giovanni Salvi, who has opened a homicide investigation into the disaster, ordered the arrest of the two. Officials from the prosecutor's office said they were the captain of the vessel and his first mate.

 

SHOCK IN EUROPE

The mass deaths have caused shock in Europe, where a decision to scale back naval operations last year seems to have increased the risks for migrants without reducing their numbers.

"The situation in the Mediterranean is dramatic. It cannot continue like this," said European Council President Donald Tusk, calling an extraordinary summit of EU leaders for Thursday to plan how to stop human traffickers and boost rescue efforts.

 

Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said as many as 900 people may have died in Sunday's disaster off the coast of Libya when a large boat capsized. That is the highest death toll in modern times among migrants, who are trafficked in the tens of thousands in rickety vessels across the Mediterranean.

In Vienna, more than 3,000 people including President Heinz Fischer gathered at a memorial service for the dead. The demonstrators put candles on an inflatable raft in their memory.

EU ministers held a moment of silence at a meeting to discuss the crisis in Luxembourg. The bloc's executive, the European Commission, presented a 10 point plan to address the crisis, which would include doubling the size and the funding of "Triton", an EU naval operation in the Mediterranean.

 

But even that would leave the operation smaller and less well-funded than an Italian mission abandoned last year due to costs and domestic opposition to sea rescues that could attract more migrants.

 

10 POINT PLAN

The 10 point plan received the full backing of EU Foreign and Interior Ministers. High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini and Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos jointly stated: "We need to show that same collective European sense of urgency we have consistently shown in reacting in times of crisis. The dire situation in the Mediterranean is not a new nor a passing reality. That is why the Commission will come forward with a comprehensive European Agenda on Migration in May to address the structural problems.  

 

"The 10 actions we have agreed upon today are the direct, substantial measures we will take to make an immediate difference. All of these actions require our common effort, the European institutions and the 28 Member States. We will convey these proposals to the European Council which will meet on Thursday in an extraordinary session to address the situation in the Mediterranean. This is what Europe taking responsibility is - all of us working together."

 

1. Reinforce the Joint Operations in the Mediterranean, namely Triton and Poseidon, by increasing the financial resources and the number of assets. We will also extend their operational area, allowing us to intervene further, within the mandate of Frontex ( the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union);

 

2. A systematic effort to capture and destroy vessels used by the smugglers. The positive results obtained with the Atalanta operation should inspire us to similar operations against smugglers in the Mediterranean;
    
3. Europol, Frontex, EASO (an agency of the European Union that plays a key role in the concrete development of the Common European Asylum System) and Eurojust will meet regularly and work closely to gather information on smugglers modus operandi, to trace their funds and to assist in their investigation;
    
4. EASO to deploy teams in Italy and Greece for joint processing of asylum applications;
    
5. Member States to ensure fingerprinting of all migrants;
    
6. Consider options for an emergency relocation mechanism;
    
7. An EU wide voluntary pilot project on resettlement, offering a number of places to persons in need of protection;
    
8. Establish a new return program for rapid return of irregular migrants coordinated by Frontex from frontline Member States;
    
9. Engagement with countries surrounding Libya through a joined effort between the Commission and the EEAS; initiatives in Niger have to be stepped up.
    
10. Deploy Immigration Liaison Officers (ILO) in key third countries, to gather intelligence on migratory flows and strengthen the role of the EU Delegations.

 

"SLAVERY"

Italy and Malta were working to rescue another two migrant boats with around 400 people off the coast of Libya on Monday. Hundreds of kilometers to the east, coast guards were struggling to save scores of migrants from another vessel destroyed after running aground off the Greek island of Rhodes.

Greek coast guards said at least three people were killed there. Television pictures showed survivors clinging to floating debris while rescuers pulled them from the waves.

 

Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi compared the smuggling of migrants across the Mediterranean to the African slave trade of centuries ago. "When we say we are in the presence of slavery we are not using the word just for effect," he said.

 

European officials are struggling to come up with a policy to respond more humanely to an exodus of migrants travelling by sea from Africa and Asia to Europe, without worsening the crisis by encouraging more to leave.

 

"Search and rescue alone is not a silver bullet," said German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere. "If you just organize search and rescue, criminals who get the refugees on board will send more boats."

 

Nevertheless, Chancellor Angela Merkel said that alongside efforts to fight trafficking, more should be done to save those at sea: "We will do everything to prevent further victims from perishing in the most agonizing way on our doorstep."

The vessel overturned and sank off the coast of Libya on Sunday when passengers rushed to one side to attract attention from a passing merchant ship.

 

A Bangladeshi survivor told police there had been 950 passengers onboard, many of them locked into the hold and lower deck, according to the International Organization for Migration. Officials cautioned the figure was an informal estimate.

 

In the Maltese capital Valletta, coast-guard officers brought ashore 24 corpses found so far. Wearing white protective suits, they carried the victims in body-bags off the Italian ship Gregoretti and deposited them in hearses as survivors looked on from the deck.

 

Twenty-eight survivors rescued so far were to be taken on the same boat to the Sicilian port of Catania.

In Greece more than 90 people were rescued from the boat wrecked off the coast of Rhodes: "We have recovered three bodies so far - that of a man, a woman and a child," a coast guard official said.

 

Among those calling for more compassion from Europe were the United Nations human rights chief and Pope Francis.

"This is a humanitarian emergency that involves us all," the IOM's Italy Director Federico Soda said, calling for a mission equivalent to the Italian operation to be relaunched immediately.

 

LIBYA CHAOS

If the toll is confirmed in Sunday's tragedy, as many as 1,800 migrants will have died so far trying to cross the Mediterranean since the start of this year. The IOM estimates around 21,000 made the voyage successfully.

 

In comparison, by the end of April last year, fewer than 100 had died out of 26,000 who crossed.

 

The number of migrants normally surges in the summer, meaning far greater numbers are likely to attempt the voyage in coming months. In total last year 174,000 made the journey successfully and around 3,200 died.

 

The IOM says hundreds of thousands of people could be planning to attempt the crossing from Libya, now in a lawless state with two competing governments at war with each other and incapable of policing people-smuggling gangs.

 

Renzi said a military operation in Libya was not on the table, while Malta's Muscat said the United Nations should mandate a force to fight people-traffickers in Libya.

 

Rights group Amnesty International said Thursday's summit would be a litmus test of Europe's commitment to save lives in the Mediterranean, calling for a robust rescue mission. Bernard Ryan, professor of migration law at Leicester University, told Reuters: "It's a myth to think there's some other solution".

Last week around 400 migrants were reported to have died attempting to reach Italy from Libya when their boat capsized.

Northern EU countries have so far largely left rescue operations to southern states such as Italy. According to the IOM, Italian coast guards, navy and commercial ships had rescued 10,000 migrants in the Mediterranean in the past few days.

 

IMO CALLS FOR COORDINATED EFFORTS

The Secretary-General of the IIMO, Koji Sekimizu, has called for coordinated action to safeguard migrants.

 

While recognizing the significant contribution of the coast guards and naval forces of Italy and Malta, EU Operation Triton and the merchant shipping industry in rescuing thousands of migrants, Sekimizu said: 
 
"The deaths of hundreds of migrants drowned in the Mediterranean within sight of a potential rescue ship once again highlight the need for urgent action to be taken against those unscrupulous criminals whose greed and lack of respect for human life allow them to cram hundreds of innocent, desperate people into unsuitable craft with no concern for their safety. 

"At the same time, I call upon Governments and the wider international community to expedite their efforts to take coordinated action to safeguard migrants and to manage the flow of migrants across borders in ways that do not lead to them being exploited and taken to sea in unsafe craft".

 

He added, "The international maritime search and rescue system created through IMO instruments was not designed to handle the huge flows of migrants that are currently being seen in the Mediterranean.  In being compelled to embark these unsafe vessels, migrants are effectively being put into extreme danger as soon as they leave shore. The fact that migrants are drowning within sight of their would-be rescuers is testament to the dangers they face and every effort should be taken to find safer, managed routes for migrants."

 

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