Even as the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees pleaded with countries to take in more of the 79.5 million displaced people worldwide, the Trump administration has consistently lowered the refugee cap each year.
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Court sides with Trump on right to end Temporary Protected Status for immigrants
The court said the president was within his rights to revoke Temporary Protected Status from Salvadoran immigrants. The ruling also is expected to affect TPS holders from Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Sudan and Nepal.
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Forty years after killings, Salvadoran city claims Maryknoll Sisters as its own
Almost four decades after their deaths, these women martyrs are remembered, not because of how they died, but as examples of Christian lives well-lived.
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Diocese of Joliet to partner with nonprofit for Latino leaders initiative
In a new initiative, the Diocese of Joliet, Ill. will partner with the Leadership Roundtable to train Latino leaders in serving the church in the United States.
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Dioceses in Hurricane Laura’s path report damage, but hard to gauge for now
Bishops from the dioceses of Beaumont, Texas, and Lake Charles, Louisiana, found themselves assessing damages and checking in with others hours after destructive Hurricane Laura had passed.
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Bishop Cantu: Californians ‘on edge’ as historic wildfires rage
Evacuation orders have affected more than 250,000 Californians, including many Catholics in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the dioceses of San Jose, Sacramento and Monterey.
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Federal judge speaks out on son’s murder, calls for protection of judges
Lawyer Roy Den Hollander, who later committed suicide, has been identified as the shooter. Hollander has described himself as “anti-feminist.” Mark Anderl, the judge’s husband, remains in the hospital.
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Calling out racism, El Paso bishop forms commission a year after massacre
“We really believe that ceremonies of remembrance and times of prayer aren’t enough. We also have to deal with the reality that led to those events on that day and were very clearly present in the mind and heart of the attacker.”
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Texas dioceses still assessing damage from Hurricane Hanna
The hurricane hit southern Texas — a region already battered by the coronavirus — particularly hard, causing widespread damage, though no casualties were reported, at least in the U.S.
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Hunger high on list of battles that aid agency CRS faces amid pandemic
A July 13 report from the United Nations said almost 690 million people went hungry in 2019, an increase of 10 million from the previous year—figures arrived at before the pandemic began.