The International Christian Maritime Association has, on behalf of all its members, signed the Memorandum of Understanding of the “Maritime Piracy: Humanitarian Response Program.” In doing so ICMA has added its voice to the maritime community in vowing to stand by seafarers and their families when affected by piracy. ICMA had long since resolved that [...]
The Secretariat of the International Committee on Seafarers Welfare (ICSW) has moved its offices from Watford to Croydon. The move follows a decision by the ICSW Presidium (management board) to share office space with the International Seafarers Assistant Network (ISAN, the charity that runs the SeafarersHelp 24-hour helpline). The move is intended to save on [...]
Many churches supporting members of ICMA highlighted seafarers in their worship on Sea Sunday, 10th July 2011. While the Secretary General of The Mission to Seafarers, Reverend Tom Heffer, preached the Sunday Evening sermon at Westminster Abbey in London, Pope Benedict XVI prayed especially for seafarers in his Sunday address from The Vatican. Several ecumenical [...]
Lloyd Burghart has retired from NAMMA. While Chaplain Lloyd Burghart continues to be the Regional Coordinator of ICMA for our North America Region up to the Hamburg Annual General Meeting in August 2011, NAMMA’s new Executive Secretary, Reverend Loring Carpenter, takes over from Lloyd as the representative of NAMMA on ICMA’s Executive Committee. ICMA is [...]
That’s what this thought provoking video clip asks us to do: what would happen if ships suddenly disappear? The video is released by the UK’s Seafarers Awareness Week campaign. An annual event, the third Seafarers Awareness Week to be held in the island state of the United Kingdom, is an initiative of several UK-based maritime [...]
On 17th March 2011, the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, which is responsible for the overall direction of the Apostleship of the Sea, made this statement from the Vatican. Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, We have seen the dramatic images of buildings shaking and collapsing for the most [...]
The PORT WELFARE COMMITTEE OF ANDHRA PRADESH, India, announced the inauguration of the new seafarers’ centre in the port of Kakinada, India. The press release states: The International Seafarers Center at Port of Kakinada India was inaugurated on the 5th of March 2011. The center was built due to the generosity of the ITF Seafarers [...]
