The stream of refugees and other immigrants into Northern Virginia in the past year has been nonstop -- but the staff of the Diocese of Arlington's Catholic Charities Migration and Refugee Services has kept up ...
Ahead of World Refugee Day June 20, Joan Rosenhauer, executive director of Jesuit Relief Service/USA, talked about her recent visit with Ukrainian children in Romania. A former hotel in Bucharest, converted to shelter housing, holds some ...
Countries around the world must get serious about reforming their immigration policies to respect the rights of migrants and refugees and establish orderly procedures for welcoming newcomers, Pope Francis said. "We cannot leave to future generations ...
The ecumenical L'Arche community in Wroclaw, Poland, set up a day care center for Ukrainian refugees, and the children play war games at every opportunity, said Joanna Stasienko, who heads the local community. "It's terrifying," she ...
They arrive with searing memories: the bombing of schools, theaters and hospitals; unburied bodies in the street; children huddled with their mothers in crowded basements; rumors of Russian soldiers committing "assaults" against women, a common ...
In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Donald Kerwin, director of the Center for Migration Studies of New York, looks at the crises facing migrants today — from Central America, Afghanistan and, now, Ukraine. ...
More than 4 million people have fled Ukraine in the past five weeks, and half of them are children, said two U.N. agencies. "Children make up half of all refugees from the war in Ukraine," UNICEF ...
Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan told Pope Francis that the Catholic Church in Poland is continuing its efforts to assist the countless refugees from Ukraine fleeing Russia's destructive war in the country. Archbishop Gadecki, president ...
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople pledged solidarity with Ukrainians forced to flee their country and thanked neighboring Poland for showing "generosity, charity and hospitality" since the start of the Russian invasion. "I am here to show ...
The power of prayer plus the aid of technology united two families thousands of miles apart in an international rescue operation. And it was all at the instigation of two 12-year-old girls.
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Evangelization efforts must be characterized by zeal to preach the Gospel & obedience to Christ & his Church, Pope Francis told members of the Neocatechumenal Way.
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