immigrants and refugees Archives

On DACA anniversary, bishop urges pathway to citizenship for ‘Dreamers’

Jun 15, 2021

The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee marked the ninth anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program June 15 by urging Congress to act on creating a pathway to citizenship for its beneficiaries.

By Julie Asher

Pope, religious leaders call for better EU immigration policies

Jun 14, 2021

Pope, religious leaders call for better EU immigration policies.

By Cindy Wooden

Vatican cardinal calls on bishops to expand pastoral ministry to migrants

Jun 9, 2021

A Vatican official asked a group of bishops gathered at Mundelein Seminary June 2 to think of migrants, whether they arrive for the short or long term, as “parishioners” and organize pastoral plans to tend to them.

By Rhina Guidos

High court decision deals blow to some immigrants with temporary status

Jun 8, 2021

A June 7 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruled that hundreds of thousands of immigrants with a temporary immigration status cannot apply for a more permanent way to remain in the country if they first entered without authority to do so.

By Rhina Guidos

Spirituality underpins migrant activism in U.S. borderlands

Jun 8, 2021

Protecting migrants and honoring the humanity of those who died on the perilous trail is a kind of religion in southern Arizona where spiritual leaders four decades ago founded the Sanctuary Movement, a campaign to shelter Central Americans fleeing civil war.

By Anita Snow

God is always with us, archbishop tells unaccompanied immigrant minors

Jun 3, 2021

“God is always with us, in good and beautiful times and in difficult times, when we are happy or when we have a sadness,” Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles told unaccompanied immigrant minors at a Mass May 30.

By Catholic News Service

U.S. migration policy can ‘make amends’ in Central America, Catholic agency says

Jun 1, 2021

The executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. said she hopes to see the Biden administration use the U.S. vice president’s forthcoming trip to Mexico and Guatemala as opportunity to correct historic wrongs in the region.

By Rhina Guidos

At urging of U.S. bishops, Catholic leaders to meet on immigration

May 28, 2021

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will host an emergency meeting with prelates from Central America as well as Vatican representatives June 1 and 2 in Chicago to set forth a path for the U.S. church’s response to immigration.

By Rhina Guidos