Sister Norma Pimentel has devoted years to protecting life at the border as migrant flows rise and fall. Growing anxiety over the lifting of Title 42 controls at the border has been a recent distraction from her ministry.
Humanitarian Aid
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After Turkey’s devastating earthquakes, can a 2,000-year-old Christian community survive?
Long before the earthquakes in February, the viability of the Christian community in Samandag had been under cultural and economic threat. Many from the city’s minority Christian community had already departed, seeking economic or educational opportunities elsewhere.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis said women are the future of South Sudan. Meet 3 who are building peace today.
“If the women of South Sudan are given an opportunity to develop, to have space to be productive, South Sudan will be transformed.”
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Jesuit Refugee Service: After 12 years of war, Syrians are driven to the limit by earthquake suffering
“These are strong, courageous people of hope,” Daniel Corrou, S.J., the director of Jesuit Refugee Service/Middle East and North Africa, said. But even hope has its limits.
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Pope Francis tells young people: ‘You are the seed of a new South Sudan.’
Pope Francis repeated his pressing call for an end to the violence that has forced millions into camps for refugees or the internally displaced in South Sudan.
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Podcast: The Catholic nun fighting modern-day slavery at the Super Bowl
This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria speaks with Sister Anne Victory, a board member at U.S. Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking, who has led efforts against human trafficking for over a decade.
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What the end of Title 42 could mean for mothers stuck on the border with their children
The end of Title 42 could lead to the restoration of asylum on the border. The end of the measure could allow these families to, at long last, find safe haven.
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Pope Francis fires top leadership of Caritas Internationalis after review found poor staff morale
Pope Francis has suspended the secretary-general and other top officers of Caritas Internationalis, appointing a temporary administrator to oversee improved management policies.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Interview: The world has forgotten about the war in Syria. Catholics have a responsibility to be Good Samaritans.
“When we think of Syria, there comes to mind the verse of the Book of Lamentations: ‘Vast as the sea is your ruin; who can heal you?’” Pope Francis said.
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The U.S. must do more to help the Afghan people—even if that means working with the Taliban.
The New Taliban is about the same as the Old Taliban, but punishing the regime indiscriminately could push Afghanistan toward economic collapse and lead to another refugee crisis.