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Immigration and Migration

At migration summit, bishops commit to work toward ‘church without borders’


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Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News

“We need to evangelize our own, we really do,” said Don Kerwin, executive director of the Center for Migration Studies in New York. “Really, the whole church is not with us and we should be honest about that. We don’t need messaging as much as we need Catholics to be in communion with migrants, as many of you have talked about.

Taking a cue from immigrants’ home countries, messages about COVID-19 taken into hard-hit neighborhoods


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Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Bishop Lewandowski, Catholic Charities, Coronavirus, Feature, Hispanic Ministry, Immigration and Migration, Local News, News

With infection rates rising around Maryland, as elsewhere in the country, the timing couldn’t be better for the sound truck’s launch. As of Oct. 19, the 21224 ZIP code had 2,117 reported cases of COVID-19, second only in the state to the Silver Spring/Langley Park ZIP code, another area densely populated by immigrants.

Health officials, archdiocese team up to reach Hispanic communities hard-hit by COVID


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Catholic Review Filed Under: Bishop Lewandowski, Coronavirus, Feature, Hispanic Ministry, Immigration and Migration, Local News, News

Working with Catholic Charities of Baltimore and Auxiliary Bishop Bruce Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., the Maryland Department of Health announced Oct. 16 the creation of a mobile education unit and a health hotline to reach Hispanic communities that have been especially hard-hit by the coronavirus epidemic.