Tag: migration
Church ministries note pressure with increased migration in 2023: ‘The voice...
WASHINGTON -- Unauthorized border crossings increased in 2023, fueled in part by shifts in U.S. policy and global migration trends. The year saw increasingly...
Church’s social teaching makes it clear that right to migrate is...
A statement titled “The right not to have to migrate” was recently issued by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. But what...
First person story: ‘Even though it has been hard … we...
By Josefa Rodríguez for OSV News
I am Venezuelan, married, and a mother of 2 children. For political reasons, I was forced to seek asylum...
Biden administration considers reinstating family detention policy for immigrants who cross...
WASHINGTON-- The Biden administration is reportedly weighing whether to reinstate a policy of detaining migrant families who cross the border without authorization, a practice...
Undocumented population is shrinking in the U.S., says Center for Migration...
Even as some figures show arrivals at the border are breaking records, a New York-based immigration think tank said the country's "undocumented population is...
Response to migration is sign of character, pope says in Thailand
BANGKOK — Calling migration “one of the principal moral issues” facing humanity today, Pope Francis thanked the government and people of Thailand for the...
U.S. bishops join Pope Francis reacting to photos of drowned migrant...
WASHINGTON -- U.S. bishops joined Pope Francis in expressing sadness after seeing photos of the lifeless bodies of a migrant father and his daughter...
Houston panel explores effects, causes of why people migrate
HOUSTON — When Edrina Villagomez’s parents came to the United States illegally, they achieved the dream of her grandfather: to migrate to “El Norte,”...