Christmas in prison: give hope for lonely occupants!

Christmas in prison: give hope for lonely occupants!

In a moving initiative at Christmas time, the prisoners Albert Hötzer and Meinhardt van Gierke set a strong sign of solidarity for prisoners who often lack hope. As Kathpress reports, organizes the fundraising campaign "Christmas in prison", which enable prisoners to buy urgently needed things of daily needs. This campaign aims to improve the often isolated everyday prison life of the inmates by pleasant surprises and to donate a light of hope.

Pastoral care not only focuses on the prisoners themselves, but also on their relatives and dismissed detention. In particular, the Evangelical Prison Care is available for conversations and support, whereby the confidentiality of the conversations is guaranteed in a protective framework, similar to confessional secret. The website evang.at provides information on this important help.

accompaniment on the way to forgiveness

Hötzer underlines that prisoners play a major role in the life of inmates that are confronted with their guilt. He wants to help the prisoners to face their actions, to find forgiveness and to find a way to a fresh start. In his guest post for the "Rupertusblatt" he reports on the variety of human destinies in prison, many inmates come for traumatic backgrounds that influenced their lives early on.

Prison care is therefore more than just a pastoral measure; It often contributes to the stabilization of mental health of the occupants, especially in times of crisis such as Christmas, in loneliness and despair. Appropriate support is essential for the prisoners to make everyday life in prison more bearable and prevent relapses into old patterns.