{"id":512,"date":"2023-12-12T14:25:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T13:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kirchensteuerwirkt.ch\/pastoral-care-for-migrants-and-social-integration\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:03:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:03:42","slug":"pastoral-care-for-migrants-and-social-integration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kirche-wirkt.ch\/en\/pastoral-care-for-migrants-and-social-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastoral care for migrants, and social integration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div    class=\"accordion color-lilac\">\n  <div class=\"container-xxl\">\n    <div class=\"col-lg-10 offset-lg-2\">\n      <div class=\"accordion-header\">\n        <h2 class=\"accordion-header-title\">100 nations<\/h2>\n        <button class=\"accordion-header-button\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Toggle accordion\"><\/button>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"col-md-10\">\n        <div class=\"accordion-inner\">\n          <div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>and more in 25 rites and language communities are represented in the Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich. Most Catholic foreign nationals come from Italy, Portugal, and Germany. Smaller groups come from Croatia, Brazil or Hungary, for example.   One member each comes from Gabon, Israel, and North Korea. Members with a foreign nationality pay church tax like everybody else, and, depending on their status, have a say in the Church\u2019s affairs.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div    class=\"accordion\">\n  <div class=\"container-xxl\">\n    <div class=\"col-lg-10 offset-lg-2\">\n      <div class=\"accordion-header\">\n        <h2 class=\"accordion-header-title\">100\u2019000 church members who are foreign nationals<\/h2>\n        <button class=\"accordion-header-button\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Toggle accordion\"><\/button>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"col-md-10\">\n        <div class=\"accordion-inner\">\n          <div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>have found a new home with the Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich, which, because Zurich was historically so strongly oriented towards the Reformed Church, is a migrant\u2019s church anyway. Migration has an impact on the whole of society, and the pastoral care for migrants is a task that never ends. The Cantonal Catholic Church alone spends more than 9 million Swiss francs on pastoral care for migrants each year.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div    class=\"accordion color-lilac\">\n  <div class=\"container-xxl\">\n    <div class=\"col-lg-10 offset-lg-2\">\n      <div class=\"accordion-header\">\n        <h2 class=\"accordion-header-title\">25 language communities<\/h2>\n        <button class=\"accordion-header-button\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Toggle accordion\"><\/button>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"col-md-10\">\n        <div class=\"accordion-inner\">\n          <div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>exist in the Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich. The missions support and look after Catholic migrants.  Together with the parishes, the missions take care of liturgical life; they also provide religious education, perform welfare and social work, support communal life, and facilitate cooperation with the German-speaking clergy, pastoral workers and church administrators. Pastoral care for migrants thus plays an important role in integrating a third of all Catholics into our community.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zhkath.ch\/engagement\/gruppen\/vielsprachige-kirche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A multilingual church (German-language)<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1039,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-512","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pastoral care for migrants, and social integration - Kirche Wirkt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kirche-wirkt.ch\/en\/pastoral-care-for-migrants-and-social-integration\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pastoral care for migrants, and social integration - 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