The viral illness comes on the heels of Cuba's slow recovery from Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall Oct. 29 in Santiago de Cuba in the eastern part of the island as a Category 3 storm.
The viral illness comes on the heels of Cuba's slow recovery from Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall Oct. 29 in Santiago de Cuba in the eastern part of the island as a Category 3 storm.
More than 2,000 faithful gathered to pray outside the Broadview ICE Detention Center Nov. 1, but the group's main request — to bring Communion to detainees — was rejected by federal immigration officials.
The sisters' work had always been about care. But the climate crisis demanded a new approach. They were not just feeding bodies; they were nourishing souls.
A coalition of Catholic organizations held prayer vigils across the country on Oct. 22 for what organizers called "a national day of public witness for our immigrant brothers and sisters."
Catholics across America have committed themselves to spiritual expeditions not on the well-worn pilgrimage routes of Europe, but in their own communities.
The R-1 Visa program, which allows foreign religious workers into the United States, is seeing changes, say Catholic Legal Immigration Network officials.
Catholic sisters standing with Maasai families being displaced in northern Tanzania warn world leaders in Brazil that climate solutions built on forced displacement betray human dignity and faith in creation.
Panelists at the 22nd Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference painted a picture of migrants consumed by fear and a legal community seeking to defend them, but suffering from a lack of resources.
