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- For the purpose of answering to the pastoral
orientation of the Japanese Church for immigrants, the Fukuoka
Diocese created the Minoshima Pastoral Center for the care of immigrant
workers. The Center is usually involved with Peruvian immigrants
mostly of Japanese descendance (nikkei).
- Our Pastoral Center facility also hosts
a Drug Addiction
Rehabilitation Center (D.A.R.C.) for young Japanese addicts .
- Our third mission is to care for the increasing
number of homeless resulting from
the latest economic crisis.
- In the Center we also have the office of
the Commission of Justice
and Peace for the district of Fukuoka.
 "Takidashi"for
the homeless in Minoshima |
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- For the immigrants
we are assuring "Pastoral Care":
Mass in Spanish every Sunday, baptisms, marriages, religious
education of the children etc...For that purpose we are linked
with the Catholic commission of Japan for
Migrants,Refugees and people on the move(Catholic Bishops'
Conference of Japan).
- Since the beginning,
we have run Japanese classes. We are also caring for today's problems: problems
of accommodation, health, family, work, school, visa etc... Since
we opened this center 6 years ago, we have already topped 2,000
consultations. We also have an emergency shelter for immigrant
workers in difficulties.
- Furthermore, in 1997 we started a Solidarity Network for immigrants workers throughout Kyushu, this beeing linked to the National Solidarity Network.
- The Drug Addiction
Rehabiltation Center (D.A.R.C.) includes
"Day care" and "Night Care" with a shelter
for 6-7 people. Since1998 we have implemented
"Big Mama" a Rehabilitation Workshop which receives
subsidies from the Welfare board of the city of Fukuoka.
- For the homeless inside the Center we have
counselling , a bank of used clothes with food distribution each
week and every week in Winter a distribtion of rice balls and
hot soupe. For that purpose we created the
"Fukuoka onigiri no kai"association, and the "bank of clothes"composed
of christians, members of groups of citizens, worker trade-union
members, etc...
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Xmas of the Homeless in Monoshima church
la Misa Intrenacional
El
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