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by bcadmin | Nov 5, 2022 | Asylum seekers, Church in UK and Ireland, Great Britain, immigrants and refugees, Jesuit Refugee Service, JRS, lead, News, United Kingdom | 0 |
A leading refugee organization has called the dumping of asylum seekers outside a bus station in London in the dead of night was the “culmination of so much cruelty” resulting from UK government’s “hostile environment” policy towards immigrants.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 3, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, faith and sports, Ghana, immigrants and refugees, News, Soccer, Spain, sports, World Cup | 0 |
As Ghana’s national soccer team, the Black Stars, joins other national teams for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, some Ghanaian citizens have been talking about Iñaki Williams, who was named after a Catholic priest.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 29, 2022 | Books, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, News, University of Notre Dame | 0 |
Migration is in the DNA of the Catholic Church, and teachings that call on believers to aid “the stranger” are meant to guide followers of Christ toward a path of communion, said a priest from the University of Notre Dame who studies migration.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 24, 2022 | Associated Press, Biden Administration, Border Patrol, Catholic Charities, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, lead, News, Title 42 | 0 |
Border Patrol agents are sending migrants without friends or family in the United States to offices that get no notice. The places often don’t have space to house migrants.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 22, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, immigration reform, midterms, News, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, U.S. Congress | 0 |
Though a small group of politicians had been touting migrants as a solution to help with the country’s lingering labor shortages, the midterm election fight has seemed like a contest on who can be tougher on those coming into the country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 19, 2022 | Angola, Church in Africa, immigrants and refugees, immigration reform, lead, News, Undocumented immigrants | 0 |
The Angolan government recently renewed its pledge to issue a national document for every immigrant and refugee living in the African nation without a residence permit, but observers say little has changed.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 21, 2022 | Africa, Church in Africa, Climate change, food insecurity, immigrants and refugees, Jesuit Refugee Service, lead, News | 0 |
According to the United Nations, at least 50 million people in East Africa will face acute food insecurity this year.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 20, 2022 | Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller, Catholic News Service, Catholic politicians, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, News | 0 |
Several U.S. Catholic bishops slammed the actions of Republican politicians who have recently begun to send out of their states groups of women, children and men seeking refuge.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | Catholic News Service, immigrants and refugees, Italy, lead, News, Pope Francis, Religious Sisters, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |
ROME — Pope Francis said he is doing everything he can for Ukraine, saying the world was witnessing “cruelty.” In a short handwritten note sent to Sister Teresina Longo, mother superior of a religious institute hosting Ukrainian orphans evacuated to Italy, the pope said he was praying for them and […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 17, 2022 | Archdiocese of New York, Asylum seekers, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, News | 0 |
The Catholic Church’s perspective on the needs of migrant families arriving in New York City on buses from Texas is to see them “with the eyes of Jesus,” Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan told reporters at a news briefing Aug. 16.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 10, 2022 | Biden Administration, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, News, Remain in Mexico, Title 42, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Aug. 8 that it was set to end, in “a quick, and orderly, manner,” a Trump-era policy that keeps asylum-seekers out of the country while they wait for immigration courts to hear their cases.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 2, 2022 | Biden Administration, Church in the US, immigrants and refugees, immigration reform, News, President Donald Trump, U.S.-Mexico border, Wall | 0 |
Some border residents and organizations are speaking out against the Biden administration after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security revealed plans to fill in gaps of a border wall to keep migrants out near Yuma, Arizona.
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