As pandemic eases, Toronto sees rise in asylum-seekers, need for housing
At the front door of the FCJ Refugee Centre in Toronto, staffers are greeting an average of 60 people a day looking for help.
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by bcadmin | Oct 29, 2022 | Asylum seekers, Canada, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, migrants and refugees, News, toronto | 0 |
At the front door of the FCJ Refugee Centre in Toronto, staffers are greeting an average of 60 people a day looking for help.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 17, 2022 | Biden Administration, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, HOPE Border Institute, Jesuit Refugee Service, migrants and refugees, News, Title 42, Venezuela | 0 |
The Biden administration’s Oct. 12 decision to apply Title 42 to Venezuelans at the U.S.-Mexico border “will have an immediate impact on our border community,” said Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 17, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Jesuit Refugee Service, Mexico, migrants and refugees, News, Title 42, Venezuela | 0 |
Catholics working with migrants have mobilized to assist Venezuelans who are arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border in record numbers but are being expelled back to Mexico under pandemic-era health restrictions.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 9, 2022 | Associated Press, Canonization, lead, migrants and refugees, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis on Sunday denounced Europe’s indifference toward migrants risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea as he elevated to sainthood an Italian bishop and Italian-born missionary.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 30, 2022 | Cardinal Michael Czerny, Church in Europe, Humanitarian corridor, lead, migrants and refugees, Migration, News, Pope Francis, United States | 0 |
This week civil and ecclesial leaders gathered in Rome to discuss constructive solutions to the increased migration flow just days after Italy elected a new government that is expected to adopt hardline anti-migrant policies.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 29, 2022 | Catholic education, Catholic News Service, migrants and refugees, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
While praising schools and universities that have developed education programs specifically for migrants and refugees, Pope Francis told them they also have work to do with their own students and staff.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 29, 2022 | Cardinal Michael Czerny, Curial reform, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, lead, migrants and refugees, News, Roman Curia, Vatican | 0 |
One of the largest and most visible Vatican departments has undergone a massive internal overhaul its leaders say reflects Pope Francis’s desire for the Church’s governing bureaucracy to be in closer contact with local realities.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 27, 2022 | Cardinal Bechara Rai, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, Maronite Church, Mediterranean, migrants and refugees, News | 0 |
Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai denounced the launching of “boats of death” from Lebanon following the drowning of nearly 100 migrants who had attempted to flee the crisis-stricken country.
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 | Jun 28, 2022 | Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller, Archdiocese of San Antonio, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, migrants and refugees, News, San Antonio | 0 |
The archbishop of San Antonio offered prayers for 46 people found dead and another 16 survivors discovered June 27 in sweltering conditions in a semitruck.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 16, 2022 | Asylum, Asylum seekers, Catholic News Service, Church in UK and Ireland, Great Britain, Jesuit Refugee Service, migrants and refugees, News, United Kingdom | 0 |
A Catholic group working with Britain’s illegal immigrants said a court ruling blocking their deportation to Rwanda was a “small victory.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 8, 2022 | Church in Africa, lead, migrants and refugees, News, South Africa, Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, xenophobia | 0 |
A leading Catholic bishop in South Africa says the country needs to start looking at migrants “as people who are in need of help.”
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