In a Dec. 6 statement, the bishops also called on the federal government to “promptly carry out its commitments to promote and protect the fundamental rights of people in the context of migration.”
Bishops criticize Mexico for agreeing to revive migrant protocols
Family first: Pope says migration policy changes when newcomers seen as kin
Pope Francis does not expect people to look at migration with rose-colored glasses, but he does expect them to look at the actual migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers as brothers and sisters.
In Greece, Pope expresses concern for democracy’s decline in Europe
After arriving in Greece from Cyprus Dec. 4, Pope Francis went to meetings with Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Catholic organizations voice ‘anger’ over policy that keeps migrants out
Better known as “Remain in Mexico,” the Trump-era policy that forces asylum-seekers to stay on the Mexico side of the border until their cases can be heard by U.S. immigration courts is about to restart.
In Honduras visit, two U.S. bishops get close look at migrants’ plight
A few weeks before Honduras’ Nov. 28 presidential election, two bishops from the U.S. quietly landed in the country’s capital of Tegucigalpa with a mission Pope Francis has placed on the world’s Catholic prelates: to listen.
Photos of the Week: Nov. 8, 2021
In the spotlight: Papal audience with Palestinian president, Bethlehem tourism, All Souls Day
Photos of the Week: Nov. 1, 2021
In the spotlight: President meets with pope, “rally nuns,” “voice of the unborn”
Bishops urge Mexico to return to policy of ‘open arms’
The church’s call for Mexico to revisit its migration policies followed the arrival of some 14,500 Haitians in Del Rio, Texas, where they camped under a bridge as they waited to be processed by U.S. border officials.