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Miami archbishop on TPS decision: Use Trump’s disruption to achieve immigration reform
- Nov 22, 2017
Following the decision by the Trump administration to terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for 59,000 Haitians currently living in the United States, Austin Bishop Joe Vásquez, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Migration, called the decision “deeply troubling” and warned that it would “tear individuals from their loved ones, homes, careers, and communities.”

By Christopher White
Nun wins prestigious $1 million prize for work with refugees
- Oct 14, 2017
On Wednesday October 11, Regis University presented the Opus Prize which includes one million dollars, to Sister Marilyn Lacey for her work in South Sudan and Haiti. All of the finalists work in difficult situations bringing hope to the hopeless.

By Shannon Levitt
Canadian dioceses rally to help migrants, mostly Haitians, fleeing U.S.
- Aug 30, 2017
An estimated 7,000 men, women and children, primarily Haitians, have entered Canada over the summer since U.S. President Donald Trump ended a program offering temporary asylum to Haitians displaced by that nation’s 2010 earthquake. The Quebec government has been using Montreal’s Olympic Stadium as one site to temporarily house people.

By Deborah Gyapong

Haitian children, Andrea Bocelli sing for Pope Francis
- Aug 2, 2017
A choir of children from Haiti led by world-renown opera singer Andrea Bocelli sang for Pope Francis after his weekly general audience on Wednesday. The choir, called “Voices of Haiti,” is made up of youth ages 9-15 from the poorest areas of Haiti and are in Rome for their two-week-long European tour.

By Hannah Brockhaus
Wenski: Venezuela could be the Syria of Latin America
- Jul 8, 2017
Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami warns that Venezuela is teetering on the edge of a civil war, and if that happens, it could become the Syria of Latin America. He also said the rising generation of Cuban-Americans largely doesn’t want President Trump to roll back the opening under Obama, that Pope Francis’s looming trip to Colombia could be the “exclamation point” on its peace process, and that in Haiti, the Catholic Church is there to stay.

By John L. Allen Jr. and Ines San Martin
Poverty, inequality in Latin America at unthinkable levels, pope says
- Jun 30, 2017
Founded in 1966, the Italian-Latin American International Organization seeks to increase “economic, social, scientific, technological and cultural cooperation” between Latin American countries and Italy. Commemorating the organization’s 50th anniversary, Pope Francis said that to achieve the goal of promoting development and cooperation, the organization must first identify the potential of Latin American countries, who are “rich in history, culture, natural resources” and “good and caring” people.

By Junno Arocho Esteves