Britain's Catholic Church has condemned a government-backed law allowing migrants in the country illegally to be forcibly deported to Rwanda in East Africa.
"We retain deep misgivings" about the bill "for the precedent it sets at home and for other countries in how
As bishops from Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama visited two migrant camps on the northern edge of the Darién jungle, Pope Francis called the treacherous trek to a better life the migrant "via crucis."
The "human caravan passes through the Darién Gap, a
The Catholic Church needs people and pastors capable of walking alongside refugees to respond to the reality of forced migration across the Americas, Pope Francis said.
Only by forming people "who dare to go beyond the limits of what is established" and are
A federal judge March 8 dismissed a challenge from Republican-led states, allowing the Biden administration to continue operating a program permitting some migrants from four countries to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds.
U.S. District Judge Drew B. Tipton said Texas, and the
The ability of Catholic and other faith-based groups to "meet migrants' basic human needs" at the U.S.-Mexico border is a religious liberty issue and must be defended, U.S. bishops said in recent statements.
In a Feb. 26 statement issued in response to a
Catholic leaders and local officials condemned Feb. 23 an attempt by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to shut down a Catholic nonprofit serving migrants and asylum-seekers at the Southern border, calling it an abuse of power and a violation of religious liberty.
Paxton's
Kidnappings in Mexico have become a true plague, with many migrants falling victims as criminal groups and drug cartels -- often in cahoots with police, soldiers and immigration officials -- target people without papers. Victims are often abducted while riding intercity buses,
Archbishop Dermot Farrell of Dublin has expressed concern over the "significant numbers" in Ireland "seeking to foment disinformation, suspicion and hatred" towards refugees and migrants.
When Mbengue Nyimbilo Crepin told Pope Francis of his harrowing journey to Italy and about the deaths of his wife and 6-year-old daughter in the desert along the border between Libya and Tunisia, the pope told him he had been praying for
ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM FRANCE (CNS) -- Because so many migrants' journeys and lives are in the hands of cruel traffickers, countries of destination cannot send them back to where they embarked like a game of "ping pong," Pope Francis told