Rohingya refugees wait to receive aid Sept. 21 at a camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. (CNS photo/Cathal McNaughton, Reuters)

As U.N. General Assembly convenes, a progress report on world’s refugees

by Kevin Clarke September 22, 2017

This year the Grand Bargain on refugees seems increasingly fragile.

In this file photo taken on April 14, 2017, Polish bishops walk by President Andrzej Duda, First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda, parliament speakers and Prime Minister Beata Szydlo as they arrive to celebrate a special Mass during ceremonies marking 1,050 years of the nation's Catholicism at the 10th-century cathedral in Gniezno,Poland considered to be the cradle of Poland's Catholic faith. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

News, Politics & Society

Catholic leaders are trying to correct anti-migrant policies of Poland’s government.

by Monica Scislowka - Associated Press September 18, 2017

The church’s reproach, while so far delivered diplomatically, raises the question of whether the ruling Law and Justice party could be at risk of losing some of its wide support among believers in a country where nine out of 10 citizens identify as Catholic.

Volunteers of the Order of Malta's Italian Relief Corps provide assistant to an infant rescued in the Mediterranean Sea. (CNS photo/courtesy CISOM)

News, Politics & Society

Vatican: Lack of legal, safe channels for migration helps traffickers

by Catholic News Service September 5, 2017

A Vatican official condemns the lack of safe and legal channels for migration, citing the dependency that creates among migrants on smugglers and human traffickers who may exploit them.

20170824T1047-11164-CNS-ROME-REFUGEE-EVICTION

News, Politics & Society

Catholic groups fault Rome police for violent removal of refugees

by Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service August 24, 2017

Police evicted hundreds of refugees from the building Aug. 19. About 100 people, mostly Eritreans and Ethiopians with official refugee status, had been camping in a public square outside the building since then.

Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, and Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago greet asylum seekers at the Humanitarian Respite Center at Sacred Heart Church in McAllen, Texas, on Aug. 15. (CNS photo/courtesy Catholic Extension)

Dispatches, Faith

Chicago’s Cardinal Cupich thanks Texas parish for ‘welcoming the stranger’

by Catholic News Service August 24, 2017

Cardinal Cupich of Chicago visited McAllen, Texas, to grant $100,000 for a new building to provide services for asylum seekers.

In this Friday, June 9, 2017 file photo, a South Sudanese refugee boy sits on a mat outside a communal tent while his brother sleeps, at the Imvepi reception center, where newly arrived refugees are processed before being allocated plots of land in nearby Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, in northern Uganda. AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Dispatches, Politics & Society

Pope Francis offers 4 points to guide the world’s response to refugees

by Colleen Dulle August 21, 2017

The pope’s World Day of Migrants and Refugees message marks a break from past years.

A family from Haiti approach a tent in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, stationed by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, as they haul their luggage down Roxham Road in Champlain, N.Y., Monday, Aug. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Dispatches, Politics & Society

Why refugees in the U.S. are risking their lives at the Canadian border

by Dean Dettloff August 14, 2017

Refugees who initially fled from places in Africa were treated for frostbite after crossing the northern border on foot.

People join a demonstration titled, "City Flotilla, at Sea Against Racism," to protest against the scheduled arrival of the C Star, a ship that an anti-immigrant group has chartered to try and halt migrant arrivals to Europe from Africa and elsewhere, in Catania, Sicily Island, Italy, on July 29. (Orietta Scardino/ANSA via AP)

Dispatches, Politics & Society

Europe’s alt-right takes to the high seas to intercept refugees

by David Stewart August 7, 2017

Far-right groups are “crowdfunding” to pay for a purported defense of Europe. The aim of the new-right is to target vessels of various charities and aid agencies that are trying to rescue refugees at risk on the Mediterranean.