Tag: refugees
Faith-based agencies ‘appalled’ by reports U.S. could end refugee admissions
WASHINGTON -- News that officials in the Trump administration are considering "zeroing out" the number of refugees accepted by the United States brought an...
Pope Francis: Viewing leadership in action
"Look at this one!"
During an in-flight press conference while returning to Rome after a one-day, April 2016 visit to the Moria refugee camp on...
Pope Francis: Migrants are people, not just a social issue
VATICAN CITY -- Christians are called to follow the spirit of the beatitudes by comforting the poor and the oppressed, especially migrants and refugees...
No loans, no aid: Just Palestinian refugees in an international business
JERASH, Jordan — The poorest of Jordan’s 10 camps for Palestinian refugees would seem to be the unlikeliest place from which to launch an...
Onetime Polish war refugee collects history so the world won’t forget
WASHINGTON -- One of Julek Plowy's first memories as a young World War II Polish refugee in Mexico is eating raw onions like an...
Families fleeing Venezuela find home with Scalabrinians in Sao Paulo
Catholic News Service
SAO PAULO — At the beginning of March, Gisela Gomez, 36, gathered a few belongings, said goodbye to her 17- and 15-year-old...