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
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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
12h-14h: Crew presentation and lunch on the boat
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Free time
16:00-18:30: 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 Monseigneur Arjan Dodaj, in the Cathedral of Santa Lucia
11h-12h: Workshop at the School of Benedictine Nuns
13h: Lunch with young Albanians at the School of Sisters
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 on 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
14:00: Meeting of the priest of Muggia Vecchia in charge of welcoming the Ukrainians
15:00: Meeting with the Bishop of Trieste, Mgr Enrico Trevisi
18:00 Mass for the Solemnity of the Assumption in the Basilica of Muggia Vecchia
7:30 p.m.: Dinner and departure for Trieste
Saturday, August 16
9 a.m.: Visit of places related to peace education and meeting with civil authorities
11:00 a.m.: Meeting of the Sant'Egidio community
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 moment where migration policies are under review in many regions and countries, it is essential that security concerns do not take precedence over the human rights of migrants», Felipe González Morales, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of migrants.
Published on August 25, 2023 in Featured