Os direitos humanos e a diaconia: contribuições para o cuidado a pessoas refugiadas

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to base and discuss theological-diaconate contributions to people in situation of refuge, making use of considerations about the relationship of diakonia with human rights. Considering the characteristics and the theme of the work developed, the present study is carried out through bibliographical research, having been used, in particular, texts from the area of Law and Theology. It seeks, first of all, the definition of persons in a state of refuge, in order to delimit the people on whom the diaconate care specifically aimed at refugees and refugees falls. According to the Refugee Statute of 1951, refugees are those who are persecuted on the basis of race, religion, nationality, social group or political opinion, or who fear that they will not receive protection from their country of origin and are out of their country. Once the scope has been delimited, since the very notion of the refuge institute derives from human rights, it works the relation between the theology of diakonia and human rights, raising the challenges of this connection, as well as biblical-theological references that help in your understanding. Through the analysis of biblical-theological and juridical texts, glimpses, despite some criticism, that the relationship between diaconal theology and human rights provides mutual benefits to each other, and especially to human beings. Since diakonia is the area of theological work of caring for human beings, it presents the ecclesiological history of diakonia, as well as its concept. It brings biblical-diakonial considerations demonstrating that God is a servant and that Jesus had diaconal ministry, related diakonia with the common grace that reaches all human beings because they are created in the image and likeness of God. Finally, he enters specifically in the discussion of the diakonia towards the people in situation of refuge, raises assumptions and it exemplifies with some cases and data brought by the agency for refugees of the United Nations - UN.