Pope: Driving away migrants is a ‘grave sin’ August 28, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Working to turn migrants away from the prospect of peace and security in a new country is “a grave sin,” Pope Francis said. “It needs to be said clearly: There are those who systematically work by all means to drive away migrants, and this, when done knowingly and deliberately, is a […]
Judge halts Biden rule giving U.S. citizens’ spouses, children path to legalize their status August 27, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News A federal judge has halted an immigration policy offering protections for non-citizen spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens intended to keep their families together as they seek to legalize their status in the United States.
Cardinal to Latin American church leaders: Welcome and protect migrants August 27, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News Pope Francis’ point man on immigration has urged Catholics to “welcome and protect” migrants, who ply increasingly perilous paths as they flee hardship and danger — only to meet indifference and hostility at the destinations.
Latin American religious denounce failure of regional governments to address migrants’ plight August 25, 2024By Rhina Guidos OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News For men and women religious from across Latin America, the new U.S.-Panama deportation agreement is one more measure by governments to punish the poor for emigrating, while failing to offer solutions to the problems that force them to leave and failing to approve measures to help them cross borders safely.
Study on Catholic attitudes on immigration shows need for instruction August 21, 2024By Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration At least 46 percent of our Catholics need better instruction on what the church teaches so that their opinions on migration will be informed by Catholic social teaching.
N.J. diocese, priests sue federal government over religious worker visa rule change August 19, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vocations, World News A New Jersey diocese and several priests are suing the federal government over a rule change in religious worker visas, in a case that highlights the perfect storm created by the nation’s shifting immigration policies and the Catholic Church in the United States’ increased reliance on foreign-born clergy amid a downward trend of domestic vocations to the priesthood.
UK Catholics voice ‘shock and concern’ at new outbreak of nationwide disorder August 9, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News Prominent Catholics have joined church leaders in condemning a wave of riots across the United Kingdom, while also urging greater understanding of current social grievances.
The Christ you encounter August 5, 2024By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration The same Jesus who meets us in Scripture and at Mass meets us at the border. If we can’t see him in those desperate people, how do we face him in the Eucharist?
Speaker: Mexico City is ‘another border,’ government has ‘no will’ to address migration crisis July 31, 2024By Luis Donaldo González OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News At an international and interdisciplinary conference on migration held July 3-9 in Mexico City, human rights activist Josephine Sister María Magdalena Silva Rentería denounced the government’s lack of interest in addressing the migration crisis.
Catholic advocates ‘deeply troubled’ by alleged abuse of migrant kids in US-funded shelters July 25, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Catholic immigration and anti-trafficking advocates are expressing grave concern over alleged systemic sexual abuse of unaccompanied migrant children by staff of a private contractor for the U.S. government.
Texas AG appeals after state judge rejects effort to shut down Catholic border ministry July 17, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a direct appeal July 15 to the Texas Supreme Court seeking to revive his effort to shut down Annunciation House in El Paso, Texas, a Catholic nonprofit serving migrants, after a state judge earlier the same month dismissed his lawsuit.
With church’s help, Afghan’s first female fighter pilot and family settling into new life in U.S. July 13, 2024By Elizabeth Wong Barnstead OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News At age 33, Hasina Omari has survived familial disapproval of her career choices (becoming Afghanistan’s first female fighter pilot), nearly 370 flight hours of night and weekend missions, and expecting a baby while escaping the Taliban’s takeover of her home country.
