Our Mission & Vision

  • Pastoral Migratoria invites and forms immigrants to be leaders of service, justice and accompaniment in their parish communities.

  • National Pastoral Migratoria (NPM)’s mission is to deliver systemic change and strengthen immigrant communities in the United States by sharing the Pastoral Migratoria model, which is a parish-based immigrant social ministry.

  • The vision of National Pastoral Migratoria is to create a culture and infrastructure in U.S. dioceses that empower immigrants to claim leadership as agents of their own development and change in their parish communities in the vision of Pope Francis.

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Our Values

Human Dignity

 Immigrants and migrants, like all persons, possess fundamental dignity and rights that should be recognized and protected in light of the ethics of the good Samaritan.  (USCCB Strangers No Longer Pastoral Letter 2003)

Leadership

Supporting immigrants to be agents of their own development unlocks their potential to help strengthen communities and society as a whole. (Pope Francis, Aparecida 385, 2007)

Partnership

Promoting the culture of encounter to work together across religious and secular lines – as individuals, organizations, and institutions creates sustainable systemic change.

Multiculturalism

Embracing ethnic and cultural diversity promotes unity and opportunities for mutual transformation and advances social fraternity and justice that seeks the common good. (Matthew 25:35; USCCB Welcoming the Stranger Among Us: Unity in Diversity, 2000)