Poverty and criminal violence are pushing hundreds of thousands of people northward while escalated deportations are tearing families apart in the United States.

“The migrant family is a crucial component of our globalized world,” said Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Vatican observer to U.N. agencies in Geneva.

Trump's new immigration policy proposals “are not reflective of our country's immigrant past, and they attack the most vulnerable.”

Conditions in many parts of the world force women and girls to bear the burden of carrying out everyday chores for their families and communities, keeping many of them from getting even a basic education, the Vatican's U.N. nuncio said Oct. 6.

Undocumented women face special challenges when they report domestic abuse, but they now have a champion in Pope Francis

We need to revisit the views of this 16th-century reformer on hospitality now more than ever.