Complexities of U.S. immigration visa system impact the church’s pastoral mission April 21, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Vocations America’s tumultuous immigration system is again impacting nonordained religious workers from other countries — including Catholic religious sisters and brothers.
Myanmar refugee family, approved but in limbo, prays for good news while waiting to enter U.S. April 21, 2025By Elizabeth Wong Barnstead OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News Father Martin has not seen his brother in person since 2009, when Stephen left their family’s village in Myanmar to seek a better life in a new land.
Religious freedom, migration on agenda as Vance meets Cardinal Parolin April 19, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, World News Against the backdrop of deep differences with the Trump administration over migration and foreign aid as well as concerns for Ukraine and for Gaza, the Vatican secretary of state welcomed U.S. Vice President JD Vance to the Vatican.
El Salvador president says he won’t return erroneously deported, imprisoned man to U.S. April 15, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Trump administration officials and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on April 14 dismissed arguments that an erroneously deported Maryland man should be returned to the United States from a prison where he is being held in El Salvador.
U.S. bishops support bill easing immigrant religious workers’ path to permanent residency April 11, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vocations, World News The U.S. bishops on April 10 told congressional lawmakers they support bipartisan legislation that would ease some immigration restrictions on religious workers from other countries, allowing them to stay in the U.S. while they wait for permanent residency.
Aiding migrants ‘goes against the tide’ today, top Jesuit says April 11, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News Using forced deportations and detainment to deal with migration is “a scandal,” said Jesuit Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits.
Church workers welcome deported migrants to Honduras April 10, 2025By Paul Jeffrey OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News Sister Idalina, a native of Brazil, is director of the Center for Attention to Returned Migrants, a joint effort of the Catholic Church and several government and nongovernmental agencies.
Supreme Court permits migrant deportations under wartime law, for now April 9, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court issued a ruling April 7 allowing the Trump administration to continue to deport migrants accused of gang membership using a wartime powers law for now, overturning a lower court that had paused such deportations. However, the high court also stressed that individuals subject to such deportations are entitled to judicial review, prompting an emergency filing before a federal court in New York the following day.
USCCB ends cooperative agreements with U.S. government after work suspended April 7, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said it would not renew its cooperative agreements with the federal government related to children’s services and refugee support after its longstanding partnerships with the federal government in those areas became “untenable.”
Poll shows mixed views of Trump’s policies, including deportations April 3, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News U.S. adults hold mixed views of Trump administration policies, including on deportations, a new Marquette Law School Poll found.
Seitz: U.S. policy shift making migrants fearful, creating a less welcoming nation March 29, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News OSV News interviewed Bishop Mark J. Seitz, who heads that diocese, for his thoughts on current U.S. immigration policy and the challenges faced by those he serves in his borderlands community. Bishop Seitz currently chairs the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration.
Cardinal McElroy, immigration advocates warn U.S. at a moral crossroad with migrants March 26, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Representatives of Catholic and immigration advocacy organizations, and Washington’s new Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, grappled with the need to send a clear moral message on the dignity of migrants amid the “uncertainty” of the political moment at a recent event in the nation’s capital.
