A fire in a Mexican immigration detention center has claimed the lives of at least 38 migrants, who appeared to be abandoned by guards as flames engulfed their locked cells, according to a leaked video from the facility near the U.S. border
As part of Our Sunday Visitor’s series on the study-abroad programs at Catholic colleges and universities, reporter Paul Senz writes about the impact studying in Mexico and South America had on several students from schools across the country. At Xavier University in
From an altar set on a platform just above the waters that straddle the U.S. and Mexico, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, celebrated a Mass Nov. 5 to remember migrants who've died trying to cross the waters below or
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.
The Mexican branches of Jesuit Migration Service and Jesuit Refugee Service, along with
Pope Francis has named Maltese Archbishop Joseph Spiteri, nuncio to Lebanon for the past four years, as the new nuncio to Mexico.
The Vatican announced the appointment July 7.
The position will be a homecoming of sorts for the 63-year-old archbishop; he had served
Mexico's Catholic leaders are calling for a day of prayer as violence continues crippling the country and priests and bishops raise their voice on an issue that puts them in conflict with Mexico's popular president.
The Mexican bishops' conference, the Jesuits and Mexican
Congregations of women religious throughout the world can feel overwhelmed with the care needed by older sisters, but often, resources taken for granted in developed countries do not even exist in other countries.
For instance, while congregations worldwide provide their older sisters with
Two Jesuit priests were murdered in a rugged region of Mexico rife with violence as they provided refuge to a person being pursued by a gunman, according to the Society of Jesus and state officials.
Jesuit Fathers Javier Campos Morales and Joaquín César
Mexico's Supreme Court upheld a norm that requires state-level health secretariats to provide access to abortion in the case of rape and incest. The May 24 court decision also reaffirmed a provision in the norm that allowed access to abortion for minors
Speaking in a conference with Mexico's foreign relations secretary, the Vatican secretary of state lauded church-state relations in Mexico as exemplary -- an acknowledgment of the church's improved standing in a country where priests were previously persecuted and Catholic rebels took up