“God Bless Bulgaria,” Pope Francis prayed, and “keep her in peace and ever hospitable, and grant her prosperity and happiness.”
Refugees
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Announcing the winner of the 2019 Anne Frank Essay Competition: ‘If Not Now, When?’
Fear should not keep us from fulfilling our very purpose to love one another.
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Poems from children on the frontlines of climate change
The students in Kenya understood in the most visceral way the value of water. The misuse of natural resources during our age of climate change is unethical and inhuman. No matter your world view, water is special. Kids get this.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis to migrants in Morocco: ‘You are at the center of the church’s heart.’
Pope Francis suggested four actions were needed to assist migrants in their plight today: “accept; protect; promote; and integrate.”
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Meet Mireille Twayigira: Rwandan refugee, doctor, education advocate
This week, we talk with Mireille Twayigira, a Jesuit Refugee Service Education Advocate.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
How the Catholic Church is responding to Venezuela’s refugee crisis
Over one million Venezuelans have arrived in Colombia as of May 2018. Colombia is not a rich country, and helping to bear the burden of receiving thousands of Venezuelan refugees every day is the Catholic Church.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Donald Trump and the complicated diplomacy of deportation
The Trump administration is using every tool imaginable to deter immigration, but he needs court approval and international cooperation from countries like Mexico to significantly increase deportations.
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Father James Martin: Why I Am Pro-Life
The longer I live, the more I grow in awe of God’s creative activity and in reverence for God’s creation.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Cardinal Tagle: We need to create a global vision of migration
The Golden Rule calls for a global compact on migration to benefit our interconnected countries and shared humanity, argues the president of Caritas Internationalis.
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In an overcrowded Tijuana shelter, asylum seekers from Central America begin a long wait
Thousands of caravan migrants now wait in tents at the Benito Juárez Sports Complex in Tijuana, unsure if they will ever be allowed to enter the United States.