Church supports Venezuelan Indigenous immigrants’ struggle for rights in Brazil, but more help is needed April 30, 2023By Eduardo Campos Lima OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News While millions of Venezuelans left their homeland for Brazil over the past several years, hundreds of them now face a different journey — fighting several violations of their rights.
Biden administration outlines new plan to reduce migrant arrivals when Title 42 ends April 28, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News The Biden administration announced April 27 new steps it would take in an effort to reduce migrant arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border when Title 42 expires in May.
When most Hispanics were Catholic… April 19, 2023By Hosffman Ospino OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration As the Hispanic population grows quickly and steadily in the United States, fewer Hispanics self-identify with Roman Catholicism.
Steady decline of U.S. Latinos identifying as Catholics sounds alarm to ‘shift gears’ April 18, 2023By Maria-Pia Negro Chin OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News The number of U.S. Latinos who identify as Catholic continues to decline steadily, with only about 43 percent now self-identifying as Catholic, according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center.
Pope says be close to those ‘abandoned’ like Christ: unborn, migrants April 3, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, Lent, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News The unborn, migrants, the elderly and the disabled are “living icons” of Jesus that call Christians to draw close to those who feel abandoned just as Christ did on the cross, Pope Francis said.
Pope Francis prays for migrants killed in ‘tragic’ fire near U.S.-Mexico border March 29, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis prayed for the victims of a “tragic” fire that killed at least 38 people and injured some 29 others at a migrant processing center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, March 27.
Catholic leaders express sorrow, outrage over dozens of migrants killed in fire March 29, 2023By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News A fire in a Mexican immigration detention center has claimed the lives of at least 38 migrants, who appeared to be abandoned by guards as flames engulfed their locked cells, according to a leaked video from the facility near the U.S. border in Ciudad Juárez.
A ‘nation of immigrants’ should identify with migrants’ plight and human dignity, says Boston cardinal March 24, 2023By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News A political climate hostile to the needs and existence of immigrants is not only morally wrong, it also weakens the structures of democratic governments, said Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley of Boston.
At U.S.-Mexico border, migrants’ advocates call for action on U.S. asylum policy March 23, 2023By Marietha Góngora V. OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Religious leaders, migrant advocates and migrants gathered in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, for a news conference in which they denounced attacks on the right to asylum and pledged to continue supporting those who face long waits to seek asylum in the United States.
West Virginia parishes, people help Ukrainians find safe haven in Mountain State March 22, 2023By Colleen Rowan OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, War in Ukraine, World News Veronika McCann is channeling her anger and grief into the efforts of St. Joseph Parish in Martinsburg to help more Ukrainian families, just like her own, to leave the war-torn country and find hope and safety in the state’s Eastern Panhandle.
Papal message to focus on people’s right not to migrate March 21, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Reflecting on people’s right to remain in their country of origin, share in the common good and live in dignity will be the focus of Pope Francis’ next message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees.
Welcoming migrants, refugees is first step toward peace, pope says March 20, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Safe, organized, legal and sustainable migration is in the interest of all countries, Pope Francis wrote.
