Immigrants

Leaders from the Pontifical Mission Societies spent a day of their national meeting bending the ear of members of Congress, urging action on climate change, the protection of immigrants and religious freedom.

One doesn’t have to look at cable news to know there are millions of immigrants living in the United States. Most of the focus lately, though, has been at the U.S.-Mexico border.

A delegation that includes the head of Catholic Charities of the New York Archdiocese, union leaders, state officials and representatives of humanitarian aid agencies are visiting the three Central American nations that now face a cutoff of U.S. aid ordered by President Donald Trump.

On March 8, Anna Gallagher, executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, known as CLINIC, called a Department of Homeland Security decision to not redesignate Temporary Protected Status for those fleeing war- and corruption-scarred South Sudan “morally reprehensible.”

“This is what our life is about … we have to welcome the stranger. … I would say these are the faces of the Christ.”

WASHINGTON (CNS) — On March 4, Cristobal Cavazos and his companions on the “DuPage Solidarity With the Asylum Seekers” project departed from the headquarters of the […]

At a news conference in El Paso, Texas, Feb. 27, the archbishop said the real emergency at the southern U.S. border was “how we are going to take care of those who are discriminated and those who are disadvantaged.”

Standing in the shadow of the fence separating the United States and Mexico, Bishop Mark J. Seitz pulled out the photos of two migrant children who died in U.S. custody.