Francis. The commitment of a legacy

As part of the training course entitled "Identity and inclusion" organized by the Biblical Association of Southern Switzerland – Coordination of biblical formation in the Diocese of Lugano, which will take place online starting next October, Laura Zanfrini and Giovanni Giulio Valtolina, members of the Steering Committee of the WWELL Center, will speak as speakers in Module I entitled "For emigration and immigration as human beings": Valtolina with a report entitled "The case of unaccompanied minors: psychological, cultural and educational aspects", on 23 October; Zanfrini with a report entitled "To look to the future: female immigration and global human scenarios", on 27 October. For further information, please consult the official website of the Associazione Biblica della Svizzera Italiana at the following link: https://absi.ch/new/2026/08/identita-ed-inclusione-ii-anno/.

As part of the training course entitled "Financial inclusion and access to banking services for migrants in Italy" by CIDIS Social Enterprise ETS, which will take place online starting next September, Augusto Cocorullo, Secretary of the WWELL Center, will speak as a speaker in Module I with a report entitled "The (mis)match between territorial financial systems and the needs of immigrants. The experience of exclusion and the desire for inclusion". For further information, please consult the attached program.

The WWELL Centre is pleased to announce that H.E. Rev.ma Msgr. Corrado Lorefice, Archbishop of Palermo, has been elected by the General Assembly of the Italian Bishops' Conference to lead the Episcopal Commission for Migration and the Migrantes Foundation, succeeding Monsignor Gian Carlo Perego, Metropolitan Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio. Msgr. Lorefice, among others, will be among the speakers at the final round table of the next edition of the Summer School "Human Mobility and Global Justice", which will take place in Palermo on August 27 at the Aula Magna of the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Sicily "St. John the Evangelist" and which will be entitled "Christian identity in a Europe in an identity crisis". For further information and for the complete program, please consult the page of the WWELL Center website dedicated to the Summer School: https://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/wwell/it/Summer-schools/mobilita-umana-giustizia-globale.html. At the following link, however, the news of the appointment published in Vatican News: https://bit.ly/3RNWNqO