UK Catholic group says migrants crossing Channel because 'lives under threat'
- Aug 12, 2020
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Venezuelan bishops: Jail fire that killed 68 could have been prevented
- Apr 2, 2018
A jail riot and fire that killed 68 people in Venezuela’s deadliest tragedy in decades could have been prevented, according to the Venezuelan bishops’ conference.
Prison reform could be immediate fruit of Pope’s Chile trip
- Jan 17, 2018
One immediate result of Pope Francis’s trip to Chile may be a prison reform allowing female inmates to remain united with their children.
On visit to women’s prison, Pope hears children suffer most
- Jan 16, 2018
On a visit to a women’s prison in Chile, Pope Francis hears that the children of inmates, despite being innocent, are themselves the ones who suffer most.
Nigerian Catholic leaders call to end special police units, call for action on kidnappings
- Dec 28, 2017
The social justice arm of the Catholic Church in Nigeria has issued a statement on several issues affecting the country.
Pope appeals for humane prisons after Brazil riots
- Jan 4, 2017
After 60 people died in gang fights in Brazil’s Amazon region prisons, Pope Francis Wednesday said he was “pained and concerned” and renewed his appeal so that prisons would be “places of re-education” and “not overcrowded but places for re-insertion” in society after sentences are served.
Catholics want to stop executions in cases of severe mental illness
- Dec 11, 2016
Despite a Supreme Court ruling a decade ago, many states still execute inmates with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. And Catholic advocates say the rules need to change.
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