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How the L.A. archdiocese is supporting separated immigrant families
Through Guadalupe Radio the Archdiocese of Los Angeles raised more than $90,000 last month to help reunited separated immigrant families... Read more
Keep immigrant families together, bishops plead at border
Immigration reform requires seeing the faces of immigrants, and hearing their stories, according to six U.S. bishops who have completed... Read more
Anger over migrant family separation 'warranted', Archbishop Chaput says
In his latest column, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia called out the Trump administration and Congress for putting families in... Read more
Cardinal DiNardo: New US asylum policy erodes the right to life
At the opening of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ general assembly on Wednesday, the conference president issued a statement... Read more
US bishops endorse bill to provide legislative fix for DACA recipients
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday evening that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program must be re-opened to... Read more
Salvadoran bishops visit US to ask that migrant protections be restored
A group of prominent Church officials from El Salvador visited the United States this week to urge a reconsideration of... Read more
Vatican aims to 'change the narrative' on migrants, refugees
For the Vatican's point man on migration, ever since the crisis reached a fever pitch in 2015, the mass movement... Read more
As immigration bill fails, US bishops call for DACA protections
After the Senate failed to pass a bipartisan bill that would offer protections for immigrants, U.S. bishops noted their disappointment... Read more
LA Archbishop calls for compromise and compassion in Senate immigration debate
As the US Senate begins a debate on immigration, Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles said that “Dreamers” should not... Read more
US bishops critical of Trump's proposed immigration changes
On Thursday US President Donald Trump announced a proposal to create a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million people brought... Read more
Missionary says Haiti unprepared to accept thousands returning from US
The Trump administration announced Monday it will be ending protected legal residency for an estimated 60,000 Haitians living in the... Read more
Decision to axe US migration program endangers minors, bishops warn
The Trump administration's ending of a program that helped reunite Central American minors with their parents in the U.S. has... Read more
Central Americans fleeing violence can't return home yet, bishops warn
As a temporary immigration permit program for families fleeing violence in Honduras and El Salvador is set to expire, the... Read more
Bishops decry Trump administration's decision to end DACA
Bishops condemned the Trump administration’s decision Tuesday to end a program that benefited hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who... Read more
Bishops disappointed as Trump administration ends migration program for minors
After the Trump administration ended a parole program for young migrants from Central America, the head of the U.S. bishops’... Read more
Proposed legal immigration limits draw strong criticism from US bishops
A Senate proposal for immigration limits backed by President Donald Trump would hurt family unity and exclude too many vulnerable... Read more
Archbishop Gomez calls on Congress to pass Dream Act
Too many young people are threatened with deportation because their parents brought them to the U.S. without documentation, and Congress... Read more
Texas bishops decry state's new immigration law
Two Texas bishops have defended from charges of fear mongering the opponents of a new law which targets sanctuary cities... Read more
Bishop Conley: Mass deportations will not fix our immigration system
Controversial immigration policies issued by United States President Donald Trump’s have thus far prompted numerous critiques from concerned U.S. Catholic... Read more
Bishops remain hopeful on immigration reform in a Trump presidency
The upcoming inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump has raised questions about the future of immigration reform, but the nation’s Catholic... Read more
