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Afghan refugees hold placards during a meeting to discuss their situation after President Donald Trump paused U.S. refugee programs, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Jan. 24, 2025. (Credit: Anjum Naveed/AP.)

U.S. bishops sue Trump administration over funding freeze

Feb 19
John Lavenburg

"28 Days Later" release poster. (Credit: Fox Searchlight Pictures.)

Catholic Church gets its ’22 Days Later’ after Pope’s letter to U.S. bishops

Feb 12
Charles Collins

Then Vice President-elect JD Vance speaks at the National Gallery of art in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 18, 2025. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP.)

Vice President Vance says U.S. bishops should ‘do better’ on supporting immigration enforcement

Jan 27
Charles Collins

A car burns as Irish policemen stand at the scene of an attack in Dublin city center, Nov. 23, 2023. (Credit: Brian Lawless/AP.)

Irish bishops call for more welcoming policy for immigrants

Oct 14, 2024
Charles Collins

A view of one of the vessels from the French Gendarmerie Nationale in the port of Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, after participating in the rescue operation after a boat carrying migrants ripped apart attempting to cross the English Channel. (Credit: Nicolas Garriga/AP.)

Catholic charity says deaths on English Channel a ‘horrendous tragedy’

Oct 8, 2024
Charles Collins

A detainee sits in a truck under watch by border police on the outskirts of Santa Fe in the Darien province of Panama, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. Police arrested alleged human traffickers of migrants who enter through the Darien jungle on their way to the U.S. (Credit: Abraham Teran/AP.)

Latin American Church discusses protection and promotion of immigrants

Oct 1, 2024
Eduardo Campos Lima

A summer camp for children at the Saint James Vicariate for Hebrew Speaking Catholics in Israel in 2021. (Credit: Aid to the Church in Need.)

Catholic Church in Israel helps Christian migrants seeking safety

Sep 30, 2024
Crux Staff

In this photo taken on Monday, April 27, 2020, a man uses an old bed frame as a stove as he cooks some chickens on the mattress springs surrounded by his home-mates, all migrants from Nigeria and Ghana, in Castel Volturno, near Naples, Southern Italy. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

South Africa archbishop says being stateless means living without rights

Jun 18, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

An illustration of the Brook House Detention Center in England. (Credit: Jesuit Refugee Service UK.)

Jesuit Refugee Service looks at years of abuse at UK detention centers

May 8, 2024
Charles Collins

Haitian families living in Villa Guerrero, where immigration agents stormed several houses on Mar. 15 in order to detain and deport Haitian immigrants. (Credit: Radio Seibo.)

Church groups denounce violations against Haitians in Dominican Republic

Mar 21, 2024
Eduardo Campos Lima