In a new video series, RNS goes behind the front lines of the immigration crisis. Episode 1 is about Sr. Susan Francois, who bears witness and offers 'radical hospitality' to family members and friends visiting immigrant detainees at Delaney Hall.
Sinsinawa Dominicans are bringing food to immigrants, providing legal aid, giving rides to Latino teachers afraid to go to work, and helping pay bills for those staying in their homes for fear of arrest and deportation.
The border is not a "happy place" to be these days, nor is any migrant community in the U.S. Our reality is complex, and happiness is not the same as hope.
As U.S. agencies send clear messages about who is welcomed and who is not, St. Joseph Sr. Kari Pohl has created the migration mysteries: a rosary rooted in Jesus' own story of migration.
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.
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."
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.
