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A Catholic migrant shelter in El Paso has defended its decades-long track record of serving migrants, and called an attempt by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to shut down its ability to operate in the state “illegal, immoral and anti-faith.”

The executive director of the NGO Hope Border Institute, Dylan Corbett, works in El Paso. In dialogue with LPO, he tells how they live in the border, questions Governor Abbotts policies and says Bidens approach is failing.

On September 24, the Church observes the 109th World Day of Migrants and Refugees, a commemoration instituted by St.

A faith-based humanitarian aid organization in El Paso, Texas, is working with the diocese to potentially expand its hospitality sites to accommodate 200 more migrants per night.

With the headline “In fuga per forza“ [In flight through force], L’Osservatore Romano devoted the most prominent front-page coverage in its June 14 edition to a UN report on the rising number of victims of forced displacement.

Since 2018, the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC), ICMC’s member in Botswana, South Africa, and Eswatini, has sought to address the needs and challenges of refugees and migrants in the Southern Africa region.

Catholic sculptor Timothy Schmalz has designed the most recent sculpture in the Vatican—the first there since the 1600s—and his many other works similarly show marginalized peoples in the church.

In his speeches and gestures Francis has often drawn attention to the tragedies that migrants and refugees live through

BRUSSELS (AP) — A decade ago this year, the head of the European Union’s executive branch stood, visibly shaken, before rows of coffins holding the corpses of migrants drowned off the Italian island of Lampedusa. Some of them, small and bone-white, contained the bodies of infants and children.

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