Resettlement agencies applaud U.S. goal to welcome 125,000 refugees
A While House goal to welcome up to 125,000 refugees in fiscal year 2023 received support from two agencies working to resettle newcomers in the United States.
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by bcadmin | Oct 1, 2022 | Biden Administration, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Committee on Migration, News, Refugees | 0 |
A While House goal to welcome up to 125,000 refugees in fiscal year 2023 received support from two agencies working to resettle newcomers in the United States.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Archdiocese of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Committee on Migration, migrants and refugees, News | 0 |
The overarching message of the two-day National Pastoral Migratoria Institute held recently at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago was: “Hope is always present in the heart,” according to Carmen Aguinaco.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Committee on Migration, immigrants and refugees, News, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, US bishops, USCCB | 0 |
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has voiced support for the Biden administration’s “Uniting for Ukraine” initiative to welcome Ukrainian refugees coming to the United States.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 23, 2022 | Biden Administration, Bishop Mario Dorsonville, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Committee on Migration, immigrants and refugees, immigration laws, immigration reform, News, Remain in Mexico, USCCB | 0 |
The justices on the country’s highest court have agreed to hear a case that could decide the fate of a Trump-era immigration policy that Biden administration officials have been trying to end.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 9, 2022 | Bishop Mario Dorsonville, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Committee on Migration, Human trafficking, modern slavery, News, St. Josephine Bakhita, USCCB | 0 |
Recognizing that human trafficking is pervasive in the United States and globally, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration called for prayer and worldwide action to end the exploitation of people.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 23, 2021 | Biden Administration, Bishop Mario Dorsonville, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Committee on Migration, immigrants and refugees, News, USCCB | 0 |
The lack of will by politicians to move forward on immigration reform is affecting the lives of 11 million people in the country and something must be done, said the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ migration committee.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 12, 2021 | Biden, Committee on Migration, Featured, News, Refugee admissions, U.S. & World News, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops | 0 |
The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration Oct. 11 praised a plan by President Joe Biden to raise the refugee cap to 125,000 for fiscal year 2022.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 29, 2021 | Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Committee on Migration, immigrants and refugees, News, USCCB | 0 |
Auxiliary Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville of Washington urged people to take up Pope Francis’s invitation to “move from indifference to solidarity” to be better understand the plight of migrant people and refugees around the world.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 23, 2021 | Asylum seekers, Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Committee on Migration, Haiti, immigrants and refugees, News, USCCB | 0 |
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee and the head of Catholic Charities USA issued a joint statement Sept. 22 urging humane treatment of Haitians and other migrants as their numbers grow in southern Texas at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 24, 2021 | Biden Administration, Bishop Dorsonville, Committee on Migration, Migration Protection Protocols, MPP, News, Remain in Mexico, Trump administration, U.S. & World News, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops | 0 |
The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration June 24 hailed a Supreme Court decision dismissing a lawsuit challenging a Trump-era immigration policy that kept asylum-seekers in Mexico, while he urged the end of another policy that keeps migrants out of the U.S.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 2, 2021 | Committee on Migration, Featured, Immigration, Kamala Harris, Mundelein, News, Our Lady of Guadalupe, U.S. & World News, USCCB | 0 |
Prayers, the kind only a child can make, were on display on a table of pleas written by migrant children near a small statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, as bishops from the U.S., Mexico and Central America gathered June 1 in Mundelein.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 4, 2021 | Bishop Mario Dorsonville, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Committee on Migration, immigrants and refugees, immigration laws, News, President Joe Biden, USCCB | 0 |
President Joe Biden’s executive orders aimed at rebuilding the U.S. immigration system, restoring due process and recognizing the dignity of newcomers illustrate his “commitment to prioritize assisting our immigrant and refugee brothers and sisters,” said the head of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee.
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