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Tomas Martinez shouts into a megaphone during an immigration reform rally at the Atlanta City Detention Center in Atlanta Nov. 21. The year 2014 brought potentially significant changes for millions of people who are in the United States illegally. (CNS/EPA)
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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
Many immigrants might soon be able to "come out of the shadows."
Children holding Cuban flags and images of Pope John Paul II line a Havana street Jan. 20 staking out positions where they might get a glance of the pontiff on his arrival to Cuba Jan. 21, 1998. (CNS photo/Alyssa Banta)
Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
Restoration of ties was long promoted by church leaders in both countries
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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
It will be several months, at least, before anyone can apply to take advantage of immigration policy changes announced by President Barack Obama Nov. 20.Some aspects will go through the federal rule-making process, which requires a formal advertising and comment period that could take a year or more
An immigration march and rally near the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Washington last August. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
Leaders seek to address underlying conditions that led to recent waves of migration.
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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
A table spread with the components of Thanksgiving dinner, with the White House as a backdrop, set the scene on Nov. 19 for what will turn out to be a last-minute pitch to the president to protect some of the nation's 11 million immigrants who are in the country illegally.Shortly before the Whit
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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
In two letters to members of Congress, the chairmen of four committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged action to protect the poor and to enact conscience protections for medical workers and insurers.A third letter by the chairmen of two other committees encouraged the chairman of th
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley addresses students at The Catholic University of America in Washington in a talk about economic equity Nov. 13. His policy speech was titled "An Economy With a Human Purpose." (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
With an engaging illustration of economic inequity in the United States, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley told an audience at The Catholic University of America that the lessons he learned as a student there too often are lost in politics and policy.Principles including belief in the dignity of eve
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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
Although the Supreme Court just a few weeks ago declined to accept any of several challenges to rulings making same-sex marriage legal in various states, a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision Nov. 6 could lead to another shot at the high court weighing in on a nationwide approach to such unio
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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
President Barack Obama's decision to delay executive measures on immigration until after the November elections drew sharp rebukes from some of the most vocal advocates for immigrants, while others plugged away at arguing for certain actions, and analysts weighed whether the delay hurts or helps
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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
Ebola, war or disaster: how, when global service groups decide to flee