Thousands of faithful, including those from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Dioceses of San Bernardino, Orange, San Diego and Fresno are preparing to unite in prayer to celebrate the immigrant spirit of the U.S.
We are hurting. The public charge regulation being finalizedthis week is just the latest attack against immigrant families by this administration. Despite overwhelming opposition, the Trump administration has chosen to advance
Pope Francis and Donald Trump make little effort to conceal their disagreements. During the 2016 USpresidential election, Francis suggested that Trump was “not Christian” for proposing to build a wall along the US-Mexico border
The US bishops applauded the Supreme Court’s June 27 decision blocking the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census under the reasons proffered by the Commerce Department.
As the House of Representatives passed legislation June 25 to provide $4.5 billion in emergency funding for humanitarian aid at the U.S.-Mexico border, local Catholics are on the scene, just returning from or heading there to
The following is an excerpt from a letter from Bishop Kevin Vann. The letter, published by Orange County Catholic on June 28, calls on the federal government to sign legislation to sufficiently fund border-related humanitarian assistance.
Following President Donald Trump’s plans to deport “millions” of undocumented migrants, the United States Conference of Catholic bishops (USCCB) released a statement acknowledging that nations have a right to protect their borders, while urging attention toward the root
Rev. Guy Wilson stands at the head of a long table in his church’s mess hall, linking hands with a group of Central American asylum seekers to say grace. Children and their parents all bow their heads
Officials at U.S. Border Patrol stations are struggling to process a record number of asylum-seeking Central American families. Now, instead of transferring the families to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the border agents are releasing people
With the U.S. government continuing to severely limit the number of refugees who enter the country under its auspices, Catholic Charities of the East Bay has ended its resettlement program.
