The coronavirus pandemic has complicated the situation of migrants and refugees, but it has not stopped people from seeking safety and a better life abroad.
Complicated crossings: Pandemic has not stopped migration
Vatican official voices support for German abbess who sheltered refugees
Benedictine abbess, Mother Mechthild Thurmer, accused of two counts of “aiding and abetting illegal residents” for letting women seek asylum at her monastery.
Pope: Migrants seeking new life end up instead in ‘hell’ of detention
Pope Francis celebrated Mass in honor of the seventh anniversary of his visit to Lampedusa.
Vatican listens to ‘cry of poor, cry of the Earth’ during pandemic
Pope Francis’ vision of “integral human development” and “integral ecology” involves identifying the connections between the condition of human beings and the condition of the environment.
Emergency multitasking: Vatican says keep all vulnerable in mind
Internally displaced people, those forced to flee their homes, but who do not cross into another country, still often need protection and special assistance, including from the church, said a new Vatican document released May 5.
Experts, advocates alarmed by pandemic’s possible effects on vulnerable
U.N. leaders, humanitarian experts and sister advocates at the United Nations are alarmed by the COVID-19 pandemic’s potential to devastate refugees, migrants, and women and girls already challenged by economic hardship and social disparities.
El Paso bishop calls for release of nonviolent migrants in detention
Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, is asking local authorities to release nonviolent migrants at his local U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mediterranean must be crossroad of peace, dialogue, pope says
“Amid deep fault lines and economic, religious, confessional and political conflicts, we are called to offer our witness to unity and peace,” the pope said Feb. 23 as he joined 60 bishops from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa at the end of a five-day meeting in the southern Italian coastal city of Bari.