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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
It's time to 'update our notion of what it means to seek asylum.'
Children play in a double-fenced playground area outside the T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility in Taylor, Texas. (CNS photo/Bahram Mark Sobhani)
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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
At least two major newspapers’ editorial boards and a dozen members of Congress have joined the chorus calling for an end to jailing families whose immigration cases are pending as well as other reforms of immigrant detention.The editorial boards of The New York Times and The Seattle Times May
International Workers' Day supporters gather in downtown Los Angeles on May 1 to raise awareness about minimum wage and immigration issues (CNS photo/Victor Aleman, Vida-Nueva).
Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
A scathing new report on the conditions under which immigrants are detained concludes with the U.S. bishops' recommendation that the current system be dismantled and replaced with less drastic approaches for keeping track of people whose immigration cases are pending.Drawing on international law
Supporters of traditional marriage and same-sex marriage gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington April 28. The high court began hearing arguments in cases involving four states that bar same-sex marriage. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
'The issue is not whether there should be same-sex marriage, but who should decide.'
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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
Catholics asked to try to better understand the everyday issues faced by nonwhites.
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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
As the Obama administration filed an emergency motion seeking to overturn a judge's order blocking programs to defer deportation for certain immigrants, a policy adviser for the U.S. bishops said there's little chance for comprehensive immigration reform through Congress.The Justice Departme
A priest gives Communion during Mass at a church in Baghdad March 1. Christian organizations have begun funneling aid to Syrian cities that are housing refugees from the Islamic State. (CNS photo/Ahmed Saad, Reuters)
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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
A U.S. bishop who recently visited with refugees in Iraq told a Senate subcommittee March 11 that a multi-pronged approach is needed to combat a wide range of humanitarian problems including religious persecution."Grim statistics are only part of the story," Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruce
Mercy Sister Mary Ann Walsh takes comfort in a prayer shawl given to her by a former colleague in this 2014 photo taken at the Mercy Motherhouse in Albany, N.Y. (CNS photo/courtesy Catherine Walsh, Northeast Communications for the Sisters of Mercy)
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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
Over her 50 years in religious life, Sister Mary Ann Walsh's job titles have varied—teacher, reporter for a diocesan newspaper, Vatican correspondent and media editor at Catholic News Service, and spokeswoman for the U.S. bishops—but through it all the Sister of Mercy has been, down
A girl in Mexico eats a meal provided by the Helping Hands Association and Caritas, the Catholic relief and development organization.
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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
Caritas Internationalis is going big-picture with its first global campaign, aiming to end hunger worldwide by 2025.In North St. Louis, Sylvester Brown Jr. starts quite literally from the ground up, tackling the problems of poverty in poor neighborhoods, teaching kids to grow sweet potatoes on vacan
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Patricia Zapor - Catholic News Service
The Supreme Court Jan. 20 ruled unanimously that the Arkansas prison system may not prohibit an inmate from growing a half-inch beard as a part of what he considers his religious obligation as a Muslim.The court also declined to hear another religious rights case involving the seal of confession.In